| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | City Slickers | $19,362,020 | $13,032,121 | 67.3% | $6,329,899 | 32.7% | 1,992 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Backdraft | $9,345,600 | $6,425,100 | 68.8% | $2,920,500 | 31.2% | 1,947 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Jungle Fever | $7,953,180 | $5,332,860 | 67% | $2,620,320 | 33% | 636 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | What About Bob? | $6,952,718 | $4,858,284 | 69.9% | $2,094,434 | 30.1% | 1,805 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Soapdish | $6,460,745 | $4,401,514 | 68.1% | $2,059,231 | 31.9% | 1,275 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead | $6,353,963 | $4,233,415 | 66.6% | $2,120,548 | 33.4% | 1,802 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Thelma & Louise | $4,666,717 | $3,020,516 | 64.7% | $1,646,201 | 35.3% | 1,180 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | Only the Lonely | $3,038,996 | $2,084,839 | 68.6% | $954,157 | 31.4% | 1,548 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Hudson Hawk | $2,259,761 | $1,471,725 | 65.1% | $788,036 | 34.9% | 1,899 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Drop Dead Fred | $1,775,147 | $1,202,689 | 67.8% | $572,458 | 32.2% | 932 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 11 | Home Alone | $1,449,196 | $983,862 | 67.9% | $465,334 | 32.1% | 774 | 30 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | The Silence of the Lambs | $1,222,931 | $735,303 | 60.1% | $487,628 | 39.9% | 835 | 18 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Kindergarten Cop | $392,561 | $138,653 | 35.3% | $253,908 | 64.7% | 295 | 25 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Dark Obsession | $22,892 | $15,001 | 65.5% | $7,891 | 34.5% | 1 | 1 | Circle Films | - | false |
| - | Impromptu | - | - | - | - | - | 166 | 9 | Hemdale | - | false |
| - | F/X2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Switch | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Stone Cold | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Madonna: Truth or Dare | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Miramax | - | false |
