| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Hunt for Red October | $15,327,099 | $11,077,359 | 72.3% | $4,249,740 | 27.7% | 1,817 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Joe Versus the Volcano | $9,074,333 | $7,017,237 | 77.3% | $2,057,096 | 22.7% | 1,799 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Lord of the Flies | $5,882,705 | $4,410,457 | 75% | $1,472,248 | 25% | 888 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | House Party | $4,430,811 | $3,570,142 | 80.6% | $860,669 | 19.4% | 550 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 5 | Driving Miss Daisy | $4,170,318 | $2,874,332 | 68.9% | $1,295,986 | 31.1% | 1,353 | 14 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | Blue Steel | $3,948,032 | $2,895,744 | 73.4% | $1,052,288 | 26.6% | 1,307 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 7 | Bad Influence | $3,519,180 | $2,600,536 | 73.9% | $918,644 | 26.1% | 1,300 | 2 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 8 | Lambada | $2,556,883 | $2,031,181 | 79.4% | $525,702 | 20.6% | 1,117 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Hard to Kill | $2,531,030 | $1,830,095 | 72.3% | $700,935 | 27.7% | 1,265 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | Born on the Fourth of July | $1,767,370 | $1,241,150 | 70.2% | $526,220 | 29.8% | 1,030 | 13 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Madhouse | $1,531,819 | $1,161,928 | 75.8% | $369,891 | 24.2% | 1,233 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Blind Fury | $1,179,020 | $868,380 | 73.6% | $310,640 | 26.4% | 353 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Handmaid's Tale | $1,130,434 | $716,338 | 63.4% | $414,096 | 36.6% | 177 | 2 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Forbidden Dance | $938,479 | $720,864 | 76.8% | $217,615 | 23.2% | 637 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Nuns on the Run | $928,001 | $658,835 | 71% | $269,166 | 29% | 76 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 16 | Glory | $918,933 | $661,545 | 72% | $257,388 | 28% | 723 | 15 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | My Left Foot | $901,233 | $701,011 | 77.8% | $200,222 | 22.2% | 331 | 19 | Miramax | - | false |
| 18 | Cinema Paradiso | $221,602 | $143,402 | 64.7% | $78,200 | 35.3% | 26 | 7 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Roger & Me | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Back to the Future Part II | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Last of the Finest | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Revenge | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Steel Magnolias | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
