| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Black Rain | $12,733,314 | $9,677,102 | 76% | $3,056,212 | 24% | 1,610 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Sea of Love | $10,202,010 | $7,779,525 | 76.2% | $2,422,485 | 23.8% | 1,313 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Uncle Buck | $3,873,600 | $3,202,280 | 82.7% | $671,320 | 17.3% | 1,784 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Parenthood | $3,687,500 | $3,007,850 | 81.6% | $679,650 | 18.4% | 1,386 | 9 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | When Harry Met Sally... | $2,732,908 | $2,042,900 | 74.8% | $690,008 | 25.2% | 1,174 | 11 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Lethal Weapon 2 | $2,109,408 | $1,608,068 | 76.2% | $501,340 | 23.8% | 1,356 | 12 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | The Abyss | $1,957,274 | $1,512,309 | 77.3% | $444,965 | 22.7% | 1,176 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | $1,905,181 | $1,801,816 | 94.6% | $103,365 | 5.4% | 521 | 8 | Miramax | - | false |
| 9 | Kickboxer | $1,845,762 | $1,431,575 | 77.6% | $414,187 | 22.4% | 963 | 3 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 10 | Turner & Hooch | $1,795,432 | $1,425,987 | 79.4% | $369,445 | 20.6% | 1,208 | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Batman | $1,446,133 | $1,101,767 | 76.2% | $344,366 | 23.8% | 1,015 | 14 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | $1,077,742 | $837,091 | 77.7% | $240,651 | 22.3% | 926 | 14 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Ghostbusters II | $396,571 | $320,649 | 80.9% | $75,922 | 19.1% | 715 | 15 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | A Dry White Season | $289,688 | $202,507 | 69.9% | $87,181 | 30.1% | 17 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 15 | Heavy Petting | $104,506 | $69,007 | 66% | $35,499 | 34% | 10 | 1 | Skouras Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Erik the Viking | $95,426 | $68,543 | 71.8% | $26,883 | 28.2% | 22 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | The Big Picture | $37,516 | - | - | - | - | 8 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Night Game | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Trans World Entertainment (TWE) | - | false |
| - | Dead Poets Society | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Bloodfist | - | $89,132 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Concorde Pictures | - | false |
