| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Pretty Woman | $9,135,875 | $6,810,883 | 74.6% | $2,324,992 | 25.4% | 1,726 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $6,465,061 | $5,320,211 | 82.3% | $1,144,850 | 17.7% | 2,330 | 6 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 3 | Tales from the Darkside: The Movie | $6,339,443 | $5,028,096 | 79.3% | $1,311,347 | 20.7% | 1,535 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Guardian | $3,836,560 | $3,020,640 | 78.7% | $815,920 | 21.3% | 1,736 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Spaced Invaders | $3,645,543 | $3,153,108 | 86.5% | $492,435 | 13.5% | 1,845 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Hunt for Red October | $3,139,852 | $2,407,207 | 76.7% | $732,645 | 23.3% | 1,377 | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Q&A | $2,687,776 | $2,067,520 | 76.9% | $620,256 | 23.1% | 923 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Wild Orchid | $2,385,317 | $1,695,776 | 71.1% | $689,541 | 28.9% | 822 | 2 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 9 | Driving Miss Daisy | $2,130,130 | $1,534,747 | 72% | $595,383 | 28% | 1,120 | 21 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | Short Time | $1,563,542 | $1,237,211 | 79.1% | $326,331 | 20.9% | 557 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Miami Blues | $1,370,283 | $999,830 | 73% | $370,453 | 27% | 833 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Ernest Goes to Jail | $1,190,861 | $1,012,536 | 85% | $178,325 | 15% | 1,148 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Cinema Paradiso | $509,848 | $385,134 | 75.5% | $124,714 | 24.5% | 114 | 14 | Miramax | - | false |
| 14 | Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? | $390,883 | $313,844 | 80.3% | $77,039 | 19.7% | 150 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 15 | Last Exit to Brooklyn | $282,899 | $186,489 | 65.9% | $96,410 | 34.1% | 13 | 1 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! | $100,781 | $65,299 | 64.8% | $35,482 | 35.2% | 2 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 17 | Happy Together | $42,888 | $32,776 | 76.4% | $10,112 | 23.6% | 10 | 1 | Borde Releasing | - | false |
| 18 | The Feud | $3,102 | $2,236 | 72.1% | $866 | 27.9% | 1 | 1 | Castle Hill Productions | - | false |
| - | Mountains of the Moon | - | - | - | - | - | 187 | 11 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Camille Claudel | - | - | - | - | - | 34 | 21 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| - | Crazy People | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Body Chemistry | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Concorde Pictures | - | false |
| - | The First Power | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | I Love You to Death | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
