| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Wayne's World | $11,512,804 | $8,430,398 | 73.2% | $3,082,406 | 26.8% | 1,878 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | My Cousin Vinny | $10,210,918 | $7,416,751 | 72.6% | $2,794,167 | 27.4% | 1,227 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | The Lawnmower Man | $7,115,748 | $5,356,688 | 75.3% | $1,759,060 | 24.7% | 1,298 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 4 | American Me | $4,682,075 | $3,378,100 | 72.2% | $1,303,975 | 27.8% | 830 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Fried Green Tomatoes | $4,664,410 | $3,344,045 | 71.7% | $1,320,365 | 28.3% | 1,327 | 12 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Article 99 | $3,246,441 | $2,461,469 | 75.8% | $784,972 | 24.2% | 1,262 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot | $2,714,400 | $2,070,605 | 76.3% | $643,795 | 23.7% | 1,785 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Medicine Man | $2,619,706 | $1,925,524 | 73.5% | $694,182 | 26.5% | 1,190 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | $2,556,807 | $1,877,290 | 73.4% | $679,517 | 26.6% | 1,429 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Gladiator | $2,373,777 | $1,823,569 | 76.8% | $550,208 | 23.2% | 1,356 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Once Upon a Crime... | $2,313,882 | $1,793,192 | 77.5% | $520,690 | 22.5% | 1,101 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 12 | Beauty and the Beast | $2,284,608 | $1,561,547 | 68.4% | $723,061 | 31.6% | 1,171 | 18 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Memoirs of an Invisible Man | $1,953,629 | $1,463,415 | 74.9% | $490,214 | 25.1% | 1,387 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 14 | The Mambo Kings | $1,737,853 | $1,318,507 | 75.9% | $419,346 | 24.1% | 185 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | This Is My Life | $947,082 | $729,420 | 77% | $217,662 | 23% | 326 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 16 | Hook | $452,900 | $321,630 | 71% | $131,270 | 29% | 426 | 15 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Howards End | $96,958 | $52,568 | 54.2% | $44,390 | 45.8% | 1 | 1 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 18 | Raise the Red Lantern | $28,943 | $22,554 | 77.9% | $6,389 | 22.1% | 1 | 1 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| 19 | Highway to Hell | $18,118 | $12,273 | 67.7% | $5,845 | 32.3% | 14 | 1 | Hemdale | - | false |
| 20 | American Dream | $2,232 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Hear My Song | - | - | - | - | - | 214 | 12 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Shakes the Clown | - | $35,589 | - | - | - | - | 1 | IRS Media | - | false |
| - | Life Is Sweet | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | October Films | - | false |
| - | Final Analysis | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Mississippi Masala | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Blame It on the Bellboy | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | My Father's Glory | - | - | - | - | - | - | 40 | Orion Classics | - | false |
