| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Cape Fear | $14,217,817 | $10,261,025 | 72.2% | $3,956,792 | 27.8% | 924 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Curly Sue | $4,884,736 | $4,203,421 | 86% | $681,315 | 14% | 1,634 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | All I Want for Christmas | $3,876,314 | $3,336,175 | 86.1% | $540,139 | 13.9% | 1,507 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The People Under the Stairs | $3,731,140 | $3,014,320 | 80.8% | $716,820 | 19.2% | 1,838 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Little Man Tate | $2,682,941 | $2,155,044 | 80.3% | $527,897 | 19.7% | 1,012 | 6 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Billy Bathgate | $2,434,442 | $1,885,771 | 77.5% | $548,671 | 22.5% | 1,177 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Other People's Money | $2,322,708 | $1,837,765 | 79.1% | $484,943 | 20.9% | 1,249 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Highlander II: The Quickening | $2,092,743 | $1,581,527 | 75.6% | $511,216 | 24.4% | 1,009 | 3 | InterStar Releasing | - | false |
| 9 | Strictly Business | $1,913,993 | $1,570,201 | 82% | $343,792 | 18% | 881 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | House Party 2 | $1,540,167 | $1,281,205 | 83.2% | $258,962 | 16.8% | 1,082 | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 11 | Frankie and Johnny | $1,463,080 | $1,136,923 | 77.7% | $326,157 | 22.3% | 944 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The Fisher King | $1,412,190 | $1,092,832 | 77.4% | $319,358 | 22.6% | 923 | 9 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Beauty and the Beast | $293,373 | $162,146 | 55.3% | $131,227 | 44.7% | 2 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Meeting Venus | $99,428 | $65,715 | 66.1% | $33,713 | 33.9% | 3 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | Prospero's Books | $52,648 | $34,728 | 66% | $17,920 | 34% | 2 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 16 | Cheap Shots | $2,083 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | Hemdale | - | false |
| 17 | Young Soul Rebels | $712 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | My Own Private Idaho | - | - | - | - | - | 98 | 8 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| - | Twenty-One | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | 7 | Triton Pictures | - | false |
| - | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Butcher's Wife | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | City of Hope | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Deceived | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
