| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Pretty Woman | $9,658,138 | $7,150,551 | 74% | $2,507,587 | 26% | 1,710 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $8,331,551 | $6,914,351 | 83% | $1,417,200 | 17% | 2,377 | 5 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 3 | The Guardian | $7,068,190 | $5,565,620 | 78.7% | $1,502,570 | 21.3% | 1,684 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Spaced Invaders | $5,326,416 | $4,474,336 | 84% | $852,080 | 16% | 1,821 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Hunt for Red October | $4,025,678 | $2,983,934 | 74.1% | $1,041,744 | 25.9% | 1,479 | 9 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Q&A | $3,747,865 | $2,816,605 | 75.2% | $931,260 | 24.8% | 912 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Wild Orchid | $3,646,642 | $2,622,637 | 71.9% | $1,024,005 | 28.1% | 819 | 1 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 8 | Driving Miss Daisy | $2,390,532 | $1,630,821 | 68.2% | $759,711 | 31.8% | 1,063 | 20 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Miami Blues | $1,980,563 | $1,464,649 | 74% | $515,914 | 26% | 833 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Crazy People | $1,897,390 | $1,426,592 | 75.2% | $470,798 | 24.8% | 1,135 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The First Power | $1,733,709 | $1,262,851 | 72.8% | $470,858 | 27.2% | 1,147 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Ernest Goes to Jail | $1,722,673 | $1,422,964 | 82.6% | $299,709 | 17.4% | 1,582 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | I Love You to Death | $1,327,185 | $1,033,560 | 77.9% | $293,625 | 22.1% | 783 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover | $745,607 | $563,846 | 75.6% | $181,761 | 24.4% | 132 | 4 | Miramax | - | false |
| 15 | Cinema Paradiso | $492,753 | $322,018 | 65.4% | $170,735 | 34.6% | 123 | 13 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Body Chemistry | - | - | - | - | - | 91 | 8 | Concorde Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Gods Must Be Crazy II | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | House Party | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Why Me? | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | Streets | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | Concorde Pictures | - | false |
| - | Chattahoochee | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Hemdale | - | false |
| - | Matador | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | World Artists | - | false |
| - | Lisa | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | United Artists | - | false |
