| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $20,425,432 | $14,064,921 | 68.9% | $6,360,511 | 31.1% | 2,377 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | Pretty Woman | $14,226,496 | $10,117,891 | 71.1% | $4,108,605 | 28.9% | 1,707 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Ernest Goes to Jail | $5,981,278 | $4,249,910 | 71% | $1,731,368 | 29% | 1,956 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Hunt for Red October | $5,949,199 | $4,261,262 | 71.6% | $1,687,937 | 28.4% | 1,702 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Crazy People | $5,427,965 | $3,357,800 | 61.9% | $2,070,165 | 38.1% | 1,389 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The First Power | $5,238,860 | $3,819,013 | 72.9% | $1,419,847 | 27.1% | 1,336 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | I Love You to Death | $3,685,770 | $2,655,375 | 72% | $1,030,395 | 28% | 1,095 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Driving Miss Daisy | $3,304,221 | $2,243,724 | 67.9% | $1,060,497 | 32.1% | 1,387 | 18 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Cry-Baby | $2,193,900 | $1,551,180 | 70.7% | $642,720 | 29.3% | 1,236 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Opportunity Knocks | $1,657,630 | $1,172,600 | 70.7% | $485,030 | 29.3% | 1,066 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Gods Must Be Crazy II | $1,646,165 | $1,180,803 | 71.7% | $465,362 | 28.3% | 321 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | House Party | $1,611,683 | $1,107,881 | 68.7% | $503,802 | 31.3% | 633 | 6 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 13 | The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | $640,691 | $435,980 | 68% | $204,711 | 32% | 39 | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| 14 | Vital Signs | $531,671 | $372,253 | 70% | $159,418 | 30% | 275 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 15 | Cinema Paradiso | $376,732 | $279,095 | 74.1% | $97,637 | 25.9% | 57 | 11 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Glory | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | My Left Foot | - | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Impulse | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Nuns on the Run | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Love at Stake | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
