| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Pretty Woman | $10,402,558 | $7,594,013 | 73% | $2,808,545 | 27% | 1,794 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | $4,835,274 | $3,672,384 | 76% | $1,162,890 | 24% | 2,267 | 7 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 3 | Tales from the Darkside: The Movie | $3,941,495 | $2,946,725 | 74.8% | $994,770 | 25.2% | 1,535 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Hunt for Red October | $2,998,879 | $2,208,875 | 73.7% | $790,004 | 26.3% | 1,323 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | The Guardian | $2,489,720 | $1,829,640 | 73.5% | $660,080 | 26.5% | 1,544 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Spaced Invaders | $2,373,792 | $1,987,344 | 83.7% | $386,448 | 16.3% | 1,776 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Q&A | $2,072,420 | $1,513,050 | 73% | $559,370 | 27% | 917 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Wild Orchid | $1,775,380 | $1,202,545 | 67.7% | $572,835 | 32.3% | 760 | 3 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 9 | Driving Miss Daisy | $1,344,467 | $1,044,626 | 77.7% | $299,841 | 22.3% | 914 | 22 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | Short Time | $1,317,971 | $1,008,515 | 76.5% | $309,456 | 23.5% | 574 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Miami Blues | $1,120,319 | $787,220 | 70.3% | $333,099 | 29.7% | 791 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Ernest Goes to Jail | $959,955 | $816,413 | 85% | $143,542 | 15% | 1,070 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Last Exit to Brooklyn | $276,747 | $246,997 | 89.2% | $29,750 | 10.8% | 25 | 2 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! | $109,885 | $69,538 | 63.3% | $40,347 | 36.7% | 3 | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| 15 | A Show of Force | $91,578 | $73,405 | 80.2% | $18,173 | 19.8% | 12 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Longtime Companion | $85,954 | $50,525 | 58.8% | $35,429 | 41.2% | 2 | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 17 | Def by Temptation | $82,582 | $54,582 | 66.1% | $28,000 | 33.9% | 11 | 1 | Troma | - | false |
| 18 | Pathfinder | $6,882 | $3,950 | 57.4% | $2,932 | 42.6% | 1 | 1 | International Film Exchange (IFEX) | - | false |
| - | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 19 | Greycat Films | - | false |
| - | Class of 1999 | - | $767,620 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Taurus Entertainment Company | - | false |
| - | Illegally Yours | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | United Artists | - | false |
| - | The Wrong Guys | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| - | Happy Together | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Borde Releasing | - | false |
| - | Midnight Crossing | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Vestron Pictures | - | false |
| - | Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Brain Dead | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | Concorde Pictures | - | false |
| - | Mountains of the Moon | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Camille Claudel | - | - | - | - | - | - | 22 | Orion Classics | - | false |
