| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $11,854,100 | $9,797,376 | 82.6% | $2,056,724 | 17.4% | 2,377 | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | Pretty Woman | $10,773,151 | $8,323,687 | 77.3% | $2,449,464 | 22.7% | 1,707 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Hunt for Red October | $4,591,022 | $3,551,837 | 77.4% | $1,039,185 | 22.6% | 1,682 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Miami Blues | $3,952,751 | $3,002,997 | 76% | $949,754 | 24% | 832 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Ernest Goes to Jail | $3,381,105 | $2,951,802 | 87.3% | $429,303 | 12.7% | 1,918 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The First Power | $3,337,503 | $2,597,036 | 77.8% | $740,467 | 22.2% | 1,336 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Crazy People | $3,073,178 | $2,400,655 | 78.1% | $672,523 | 21.9% | 1,389 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Driving Miss Daisy | $2,964,642 | $2,075,163 | 70% | $889,479 | 30% | 1,296 | 19 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | I Love You to Death | $2,475,645 | $1,972,865 | 79.7% | $502,780 | 20.3% | 1,093 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Lisa | $1,361,469 | $1,119,895 | 82.3% | $241,574 | 17.7% | 287 | 1 | United Artists | - | false |
| 11 | House Party | $1,138,376 | $870,517 | 76.5% | $267,859 | 23.5% | 616 | 7 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 12 | The Gods Must Be Crazy II | $1,071,713 | $829,445 | 77.4% | $242,268 | 22.6% | 323 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | $812,907 | $649,205 | 79.9% | $163,702 | 20.1% | 100 | 3 | Miramax | - | false |
| 14 | Cinema Paradiso | $369,690 | $281,550 | 76.2% | $88,140 | 23.8% | 68 | 12 | Miramax | - | false |
| 15 | Why Me? | $70,603 | $49,933 | 70.7% | $20,670 | 29.3% | 113 | 1 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 16 | Monsieur Hire | $48,119 | $29,980 | 62.3% | $18,139 | 37.7% | 2 | 1 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| 17 | Chattahoochee | $25,561 | $17,471 | 68.4% | $8,090 | 31.6% | 2 | 1 | Hemdale | - | false |
| - | Streets | - | - | - | - | - | 77 | 14 | Concorde Pictures | - | false |
| - | Bagdad Cafe | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Island Pictures | - | false |
| - | Cry-Baby | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | State Park | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Atlantic Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | Vital Signs | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Opportunity Knocks | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Eat the Rich | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
