| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Look Who's Talking | $15,981,187 | $12,107,784 | 75.8% | $3,873,403 | 24.2% | 1,208 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers | $6,332,953 | $5,093,428 | 80.4% | $1,239,525 | 19.6% | 1,483 | 1 | Galaxy International Releasing | - | false |
| 3 | An Innocent Man | $4,700,606 | $3,605,910 | 76.7% | $1,094,696 | 23.3% | 1,561 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Sea of Love | $4,648,175 | $3,611,890 | 77.7% | $1,036,285 | 22.3% | 1,439 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Fabulous Baker Boys | $4,513,333 | $3,313,815 | 73.4% | $1,199,518 | 26.6% | 858 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | Black Rain | $4,308,293 | $3,440,755 | 79.9% | $867,538 | 20.1% | 1,760 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Parenthood | $2,138,140 | $1,688,505 | 79% | $449,635 | 21% | 1,284 | 12 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Uncle Buck | $2,009,100 | $1,548,110 | 77% | $460,990 | 23% | 1,370 | 9 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | When Harry Met Sally... | $1,677,936 | $1,229,589 | 73.3% | $448,347 | 26.7% | 1,120 | 14 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Crimes and Misdemeanors | $1,299,655 | $911,385 | 70.1% | $388,270 | 29.9% | 66 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Sex, Lies, and Videotape | $1,011,370 | $756,702 | 74.8% | $254,668 | 25.2% | 442 | 11 | Miramax | - | false |
| 12 | Breaking In | $936,312 | $679,200 | 72.5% | $257,112 | 27.5% | 400 | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 13 | Batman | $537,985 | $405,964 | 75.5% | $132,021 | 24.5% | 485 | 17 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Music Teacher | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | 15 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| - | Johnny Handsome | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Old Gringo | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Lethal Weapon 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Abyss | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | A Dry White Season | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | The Whales of August | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Alive Films | - | false |
| - | In Country | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Turner & Hooch | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
