| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Black Rain | $7,662,975 | - | - | - | - | 1,760 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | An Innocent Man | $7,334,190 | - | - | - | - | 1,561 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Sea of Love | $6,994,405 | - | - | - | - | 1,331 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Parenthood | $3,487,871 | $2,753,701 | 79% | $734,170 | 21% | 1,351 | 11 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Uncle Buck | $3,261,955 | - | - | - | - | 1,611 | 8 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | When Harry Met Sally... | $2,513,114 | - | - | - | - | 1,151 | 13 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Johnny Handsome | $2,124,369 | - | - | - | - | 813 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | $1,471,683 | - | - | - | - | 497 | 10 | Miramax | - | false |
| 9 | Old Gringo | $1,422,056 | - | - | - | - | 237 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Lethal Weapon 2 | $1,356,853 | - | - | - | - | 960 | 14 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Turner & Hooch | $1,309,400 | - | - | - | - | 912 | 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | In Country | $1,231,727 | - | - | - | - | 606 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | The Abyss | $1,231,296 | - | - | - | - | 975 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | $1,206,211 | - | - | - | - | 931 | 16 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Batman | $953,278 | $700,149 | 73.4% | $253,129 | 26.6% | 705 | 16 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 16 | Drugstore Cowboy | $48,432 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Avenue Pictures Productions | - | false |
| 17 | Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser | $43,003 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | A Dry White Season | - | - | - | - | - | 316 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Romero | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Four Square | - | false |
| - | Kickboxer | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Heavy Petting | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Skouras Pictures | - | false |
