| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Hunt for Red October | $23,597,892 | $17,161,835 | 72.7% | $6,436,057 | 27.3% | 1,225 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Driving Miss Daisy | $6,652,008 | $5,089,040 | 76.5% | $1,562,968 | 23.5% | 1,432 | 12 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Hard to Kill | $5,418,650 | $4,219,132 | 77.9% | $1,199,518 | 22.1% | 1,508 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Madhouse | $3,771,342 | $3,092,437 | 82% | $678,905 | 18% | 1,555 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Born on the Fourth of July | $2,763,940 | $2,107,980 | 76.3% | $655,960 | 23.7% | 1,434 | 11 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Revenge | $2,617,436 | $1,952,465 | 74.6% | $664,971 | 25.4% | 1,335 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Men Don't Leave | $1,834,451 | $1,411,463 | 76.9% | $422,988 | 23.1% | 802 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Glory | $1,723,375 | $1,334,095 | 77.4% | $389,280 | 22.6% | 811 | 13 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Stella | $1,672,681 | $1,276,014 | 76.3% | $396,667 | 23.7% | 1,087 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Steel Magnolias | $1,602,318 | $1,178,865 | 73.6% | $423,453 | 26.4% | 1,173 | 16 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Nightbreed | $1,378,730 | $1,060,931 | 77% | $317,799 | 23% | 928 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | My Left Foot | $1,332,100 | $1,027,424 | 77.1% | $304,676 | 22.9% | 397 | 17 | Miramax | - | false |
| 13 | Back to the Future Part II | $858,075 | $669,635 | 78% | $188,440 | 22% | 673 | 16 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Roger & Me | $315,692 | $226,859 | 71.9% | $88,833 | 28.1% | 197 | 11 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | Cinema Paradiso | $186,661 | $133,844 | 71.7% | $52,817 | 28.3% | 16 | 5 | Miramax | - | false |
| 16 | Too Beautiful for You | $52,120 | $31,208 | 59.9% | $20,912 | 40.1% | 1 | 1 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| - | Where the Heart Is | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Babette's Feast | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| - | The House on Carroll Street | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Angel Town | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Taurus Entertainment Company | - | false |
| - | Gor | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Pass the Ammo | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | New Century | - | false |
| - | The Blood of Heroes | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | The War of the Roses | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | The Little Mermaid | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
