| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Goodfellas | $8,971,101 | $6,368,901 | 71% | $2,602,200 | 29% | 1,070 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Postcards from the Edge | $8,268,663 | $6,325,009 | 76.5% | $1,943,654 | 23.5% | 1,322 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Ghost | $6,590,437 | $5,100,861 | 77.4% | $1,489,576 | 22.6% | 1,766 | 11 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Narrow Margin | $4,606,135 | $3,628,060 | 78.8% | $978,075 | 21.2% | 1,132 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Funny About Love | $3,651,872 | $3,036,352 | 83.2% | $615,520 | 16.8% | 1,213 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Death Warrant | $3,550,381 | $2,801,167 | 78.9% | $749,214 | 21.1% | 1,090 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 7 | Flatliners | $2,877,507 | $2,189,090 | 76.1% | $688,417 | 23.9% | 1,469 | 7 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Presumed Innocent | $2,585,495 | $2,005,684 | 77.6% | $579,811 | 22.4% | 1,285 | 9 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Darkman | $1,870,010 | $1,458,480 | 78% | $411,530 | 22% | 1,236 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Hardware | $1,489,929 | $1,305,713 | 87.6% | $184,216 | 12.4% | 692 | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| 11 | Men at Work | $1,214,507 | $991,028 | 81.6% | $223,479 | 18.4% | 980 | 5 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 12 | Young Guns II | $1,137,232 | $900,851 | 79.2% | $236,381 | 20.8% | 1,008 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | The Boyfriend School | $648,491 | $531,714 | 82% | $116,777 | 18% | 177 | 1 | Hemdale | - | false |
| 14 | State of Grace | $639,516 | $464,969 | 72.7% | $174,547 | 27.3% | 192 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | White Hunter Black Heart | $350,340 | $250,677 | 71.6% | $99,663 | 28.4% | 78 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 16 | The Tall Guy | $124,925 | $91,131 | 73% | $33,794 | 27% | 30 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 17 | Miller's Crossing | $49,141 | $28,202 | 57.4% | $20,939 | 42.6% | 1 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Jesus of Montreal | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | 18 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| - | Taking Care of Business | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Pump Up the Volume | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Tiger Warsaw | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| - | Repossessed | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Problem Child | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Total Recall | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
