| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $26,674,000 | $18,813,741 | 70.5% | $7,860,259 | 29.5% | 2,226 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | Pretty Woman | $16,147,956 | $11,270,218 | 69.8% | $4,877,738 | 30.2% | 1,707 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Ernest Goes to Jail | $8,378,882 | $6,143,372 | 73.3% | $2,235,510 | 26.7% | 1,943 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The First Power | $7,856,832 | $5,677,715 | 72.3% | $2,179,117 | 27.7% | 1,332 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Hunt for Red October | $7,048,791 | $5,023,444 | 71.3% | $2,025,347 | 28.7% | 1,765 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | I Love You to Death | $5,327,840 | $4,014,640 | 75.4% | $1,313,200 | 24.6% | 1,072 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Driving Miss Daisy | $4,511,117 | $3,210,821 | 71.2% | $1,300,296 | 28.8% | 1,528 | 17 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Cry-Baby | $3,932,800 | $3,004,905 | 76.4% | $927,895 | 23.6% | 1,229 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Opportunity Knocks | $2,894,250 | $2,097,375 | 72.5% | $796,875 | 27.5% | 1,275 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Joe Versus the Volcano | $2,003,775 | $1,475,377 | 73.6% | $528,398 | 26.4% | 1,085 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Nuns on the Run | $1,904,286 | $1,347,435 | 70.8% | $556,851 | 29.2% | 702 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | House Party | $1,714,847 | $1,262,785 | 73.6% | $452,062 | 26.4% | 603 | 5 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 13 | My Left Foot | $1,008,741 | $802,449 | 79.6% | $206,292 | 20.4% | 430 | 22 | Miramax | - | false |
| 14 | Impulse | $671,343 | $471,126 | 70.2% | $200,217 | 29.8% | 155 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | Glory | $625,185 | $439,945 | 70.4% | $185,240 | 29.6% | 421 | 18 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | $403,826 | $252,223 | 62.5% | $151,603 | 37.5% | 16 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 17 | Cinema Paradiso | $370,391 | $264,183 | 71.3% | $106,208 | 28.7% | 52 | 10 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Bad Influence | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | Born on the Fourth of July | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Lord of the Flies | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Blue Steel | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Henry V | - | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
