| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Addams Family | $23,077,418 | $20,133,616 | 87.2% | $2,943,802 | 12.8% | 2,411 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | My Girl | $14,279,841 | $12,391,783 | 86.8% | $1,888,058 | 13.2% | 2,080 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Beauty and the Beast | $13,906,479 | $12,239,650 | 88% | $1,666,829 | 12% | 1,118 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Cape Fear | $12,201,805 | $9,260,475 | 75.9% | $2,941,330 | 24.1% | 1,707 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | For the Boys | $5,748,981 | $4,533,138 | 78.8% | $1,215,843 | 21.2% | 1,308 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | An American Tail: Fievel Goes West | $4,239,000 | $3,782,080 | 89.2% | $456,920 | 10.8% | 1,696 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Curly Sue | $1,844,933 | $1,593,063 | 86.4% | $251,870 | 13.6% | 1,547 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | All I Want for Christmas | $1,534,147 | $1,371,421 | 89.4% | $162,726 | 10.6% | 1,507 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | The People Under the Stairs | $1,418,090 | $1,170,440 | 82.5% | $247,650 | 17.5% | 1,009 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Little Man Tate | $1,318,894 | $1,095,135 | 83% | $223,759 | 17% | 974 | 8 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Black Robe | $1,090,408 | $862,544 | 79.1% | $227,864 | 20.9% | 305 | 9 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 12 | Other People's Money | $896,228 | $735,191 | 82% | $161,037 | 18% | 650 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | Prospero's Books | $468,631 | $407,862 | 87% | $60,769 | 13% | 126 | 3 | Miramax | - | false |
| 14 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | $45,009 | $42,992 | 95.5% | $2,017 | 4.5% | 4 | 2 | Triton Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Double Life of Véronique | $32,609 | $23,851 | 73.1% | $8,758 | 26.9% | 1 | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| 16 | Kafka | $16,750 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 17 | Paper Mask | $7,991 | $6,123 | 76.6% | $1,868 | 23.4% | 3 | 2 | Castle Hill Productions | - | false |
| - | The Man in the Moon | - | - | - | - | - | 121 | 9 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Billy Bathgate | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Strictly Business | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
