| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Addams Family | $35,428,521 | $24,203,754 | 68.3% | $11,224,767 | 31.7% | 2,411 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Cape Fear | $14,768,090 | $10,033,295 | 67.9% | $4,734,795 | 32.1% | 1,702 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Beauty and the Beast | $13,943,192 | $9,624,149 | 69% | $4,319,043 | 31% | 977 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | My Girl | $4,822,414 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | An American Tail: Fievel Goes West | $4,641,050 | $3,435,625 | 74% | $1,205,425 | 26% | 1,680 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Curly Sue | $3,125,299 | $2,375,146 | 76% | $750,153 | 24% | 1,634 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | The People Under the Stairs | $2,371,940 | $1,629,605 | 68.7% | $742,335 | 31.3% | 1,552 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | All I Want for Christmas | $2,206,879 | $1,672,215 | 75.8% | $534,664 | 24.2% | 1,507 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Little Man Tate | $2,000,138 | $1,456,093 | 72.8% | $544,045 | 27.2% | 1,008 | 7 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | For the Boys | $1,408,308 | $71,348 | 5.1% | $1,336,960 | 94.9% | 2 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Billy Bathgate | $1,378,229 | $987,830 | 71.7% | $390,399 | 28.3% | 1,005 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Other People's Money | $1,335,348 | $990,464 | 74.2% | $344,884 | 25.8% | 868 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | Strictly Business | $1,093,637 | $750,444 | 68.6% | $343,193 | 31.4% | 547 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 14 | Meeting Venus | $103,454 | $71,159 | 68.8% | $32,295 | 31.2% | 5 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | Prospero's Books | $99,623 | $70,990 | 71.3% | $28,633 | 28.7% | 10 | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| 16 | The Double Life of Véronique | $22,943 | $8,572 | 37.4% | $14,371 | 62.6% | 1 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 17 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | $13,371 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Triton Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Young Soul Rebels | $3,819 | $2,609 | 68.3% | $1,210 | 31.7% | 1 | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Black Robe | - | $882,300 | - | - | - | 282 | 8 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Highlander II: The Quickening | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | InterStar Releasing | - | false |
| - | House Party 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Twenty-One | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Triton Pictures | - | false |
| - | My Own Private Idaho | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| - | The Fisher King | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Frankie and Johnny | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Cheap Shots | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Hemdale | - | false |
