| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $32,162,745 | $25,398,367 | 79% | $6,764,378 | 21% | 2,006 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | Pretty Woman | $17,161,608 | $12,471,670 | 72.7% | $4,689,938 | 27.3% | 1,538 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Hunt for Red October | $8,471,462 | $6,533,017 | 77.1% | $1,938,445 | 22.9% | 1,817 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Driving Miss Daisy | $6,812,850 | $5,175,409 | 76% | $1,637,441 | 24% | 1,668 | 16 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Opportunity Knocks | $4,309,500 | $3,512,625 | 81.5% | $796,875 | 18.5% | 1,275 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Joe Versus the Volcano | $4,055,797 | $3,276,303 | 80.8% | $779,494 | 19.2% | 1,691 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Nuns on the Run | $2,823,407 | $2,148,055 | 76.1% | $675,352 | 23.9% | 641 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | House Party | $2,684,636 | $2,139,541 | 79.7% | $545,095 | 20.3% | 700 | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 9 | Lord of the Flies | $1,968,906 | $1,490,048 | 75.7% | $478,858 | 24.3% | 916 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | My Left Foot | $1,512,000 | $1,122,011 | 74.2% | $389,989 | 25.8% | 510 | 21 | Miramax | - | false |
| 11 | Born on the Fourth of July | $1,277,445 | $1,010,740 | 79.1% | $266,705 | 20.9% | 1,042 | 15 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Blue Steel | $1,125,008 | $807,344 | 71.8% | $317,664 | 28.2% | 823 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 13 | Bad Influence | $1,009,281 | $856,441 | 84.9% | $152,840 | 15.1% | 685 | 4 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 14 | Glory | $977,072 | $733,120 | 75% | $243,952 | 25% | 632 | 17 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Cinema Paradiso | $399,796 | $284,640 | 71.2% | $115,156 | 28.8% | 47 | 9 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Henry V | - | - | - | - | - | 134 | 22 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Hard to Kill | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | For All Mankind | - | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | Apollo Associates | - | false |
| - | Coupe de Ville | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Fourth War | - | $151,862 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Lambada | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | A Shock to the System | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Corsair Pictures | - | false |
