| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Pretty Woman | $15,865,725 | $11,280,591 | 71.1% | $4,585,134 | 28.9% | 1,325 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Hunt for Red October | $11,877,040 | $9,111,680 | 76.7% | $2,765,360 | 23.3% | 1,817 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Joe Versus the Volcano | $6,539,409 | $5,250,004 | 80.3% | $1,289,405 | 19.7% | 1,795 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Driving Miss Daisy | $6,046,906 | $3,682,465 | 60.9% | $2,364,441 | 39.1% | 1,652 | 15 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | House Party | $4,101,542 | $3,200,568 | 78% | $900,974 | 22% | 700 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 6 | Lord of the Flies | $3,208,177 | $2,460,163 | 76.7% | $748,014 | 23.3% | 919 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Blue Steel | $2,213,214 | $1,656,271 | 74.8% | $556,943 | 25.2% | 1,306 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | Bad Influence | $1,910,012 | $1,463,086 | 76.6% | $446,926 | 23.4% | 1,090 | 3 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 9 | Born on the Fourth of July | $1,809,980 | $1,324,680 | 73.2% | $485,300 | 26.8% | 1,064 | 14 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Hard to Kill | $1,573,766 | $1,167,738 | 74.2% | $406,028 | 25.8% | 1,006 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | A Shock to the System | $1,315,848 | $1,002,158 | 76.2% | $313,690 | 23.8% | 345 | 1 | Corsair Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Lambada | $1,180,070 | $929,831 | 78.8% | $250,239 | 21.2% | 1,056 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | My Left Foot | $1,167,431 | $800,502 | 68.6% | $366,929 | 31.4% | 404 | 20 | Miramax | - | false |
| 14 | Nuns on the Run | $1,132,670 | $839,505 | 74.1% | $293,165 | 25.9% | 107 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 15 | The Fourth War | $1,080,423 | $776,449 | 71.9% | $303,974 | 28.1% | 1,005 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 16 | Glory | $846,296 | $537,900 | 63.6% | $308,396 | 36.4% | 652 | 16 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Cinema Paradiso | $296,570 | $184,715 | 62.3% | $111,855 | 37.7% | 39 | 8 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Coupe de Ville | - | - | - | - | - | 170 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | For All Mankind | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 22 | Apollo Associates | - | false |
| - | The Forbidden Dance | - | $472,255 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Madhouse | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Blind Fury | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Handmaid's Tale | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
