| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Driving Miss Daisy | $8,030,424 | $6,107,836 | 76.1% | $1,922,588 | 23.9% | 1,432 | 11 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Hard to Kill | $7,019,576 | $5,428,384 | 77.3% | $1,591,192 | 22.7% | 1,508 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Madhouse | $4,196,598 | $3,425,960 | 81.6% | $770,638 | 18.4% | 1,554 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Revenge | $3,810,897 | $2,868,512 | 75.3% | $942,385 | 24.7% | 1,382 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Born on the Fourth of July | $3,250,520 | $2,513,160 | 77.3% | $737,360 | 22.7% | 1,432 | 10 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Men Don't Leave | $2,573,633 | $2,007,156 | 78% | $566,477 | 22% | 802 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Nightbreed | $2,393,285 | $1,837,278 | 76.8% | $556,007 | 23.2% | 1,488 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Stella | $2,220,910 | $1,668,676 | 75.1% | $552,234 | 24.9% | 1,291 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Glory | $2,168,120 | $1,682,720 | 77.6% | $485,400 | 22.4% | 809 | 12 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Steel Magnolias | $1,626,760 | $1,207,930 | 74.2% | $418,830 | 25.8% | 1,214 | 15 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The War of the Roses | $1,261,593 | $942,372 | 74.7% | $319,221 | 25.3% | 779 | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | The Little Mermaid | $1,239,727 | $1,048,730 | 84.6% | $190,997 | 15.4% | 1,157 | 15 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | My Left Foot | $1,209,758 | $907,637 | 75% | $302,121 | 25% | 279 | 16 | Miramax | - | false |
| 14 | Where the Heart Is | $664,571 | $530,893 | 79.9% | $133,678 | 20.1% | 235 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Back to the Future Part II | $611,185 | $469,955 | 76.9% | $141,230 | 23.1% | 487 | 15 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | The Blood of Heroes | $606,148 | $471,775 | 77.8% | $134,373 | 22.2% | 318 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 17 | Angel Town | $399,752 | $300,000 | 75% | $99,752 | 25% | 55 | 1 | Taurus Entertainment Company | - | false |
| 18 | Roger & Me | $397,169 | $290,614 | 73.2% | $106,555 | 26.8% | 203 | 10 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 19 | Cinema Paradiso | $179,925 | $129,381 | 71.9% | $50,544 | 28.1% | 16 | 4 | Miramax | - | false |
| 20 | Mountains of the Moon | $99,574 | $66,683 | 67% | $32,891 | 33% | 2 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 21 | Spontaneous Combustion | $50,367 | $50,367 | 100% | $0 | - | 50 | 1 | Taurus Entertainment Company | - | false |
| - | Stanley & Iris | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Courage Mountain | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | The Girl in a Swing | - | - | - | - | - | - | 22 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Look Who's Talking | - | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Tango & Cash | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Loose Cannons | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Speaking Parts | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Zeitgeist Films | - | false |
| - | Internal Affairs | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
