| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Curly Sue | $6,364,141 | $4,957,474 | 77.9% | $1,406,667 | 22.1% | 1,634 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | The People Under the Stairs | $5,577,998 | $4,403,248 | 78.9% | $1,174,750 | 21.1% | 1,850 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Billy Bathgate | $4,893,626 | $3,745,961 | 76.6% | $1,147,665 | 23.4% | 1,174 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | All I Want for Christmas | $4,878,085 | $3,645,720 | 74.7% | $1,232,365 | 25.3% | 1,507 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Little Man Tate | $4,000,291 | $3,076,844 | 76.9% | $923,447 | 23.1% | 1,001 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Highlander II: The Quickening | $3,893,665 | $2,760,128 | 70.9% | $1,133,537 | 29.1% | 994 | 2 | InterStar Releasing | - | false |
| 7 | Other People's Money | $3,431,882 | $2,638,886 | 76.9% | $792,996 | 23.1% | 1,249 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Strictly Business | $3,153,943 | $2,456,772 | 77.9% | $697,171 | 22.1% | 881 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | House Party 2 | $2,580,006 | $2,099,359 | 81.4% | $480,647 | 18.6% | 1,185 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 10 | Frankie and Johnny | $2,271,061 | $1,721,735 | 75.8% | $549,326 | 24.2% | 1,092 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Fisher King | $2,093,704 | $1,579,200 | 75.4% | $514,504 | 24.6% | 1,050 | 8 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The Butcher's Wife | $1,692,508 | $1,264,250 | 74.7% | $428,258 | 25.3% | 779 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Deceived | $1,352,791 | $1,039,961 | 76.9% | $312,830 | 23.1% | 946 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | $769,600 | $621,600 | 80.8% | $148,000 | 19.2% | 592 | 20 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | City of Hope | - | - | - | - | - | 84 | 5 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | 29th Street | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Avenue Pictures Productions | - | false |
| - | Year of the Gun | - | $304,451 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| - | Ernest Scared Stupid | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
