| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | White Men Can't Jump | $18,919,253 | $14,711,124 | 77.8% | $4,208,129 | 22.2% | 1,923 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Basic Instinct | $17,485,830 | $13,204,200 | 75.5% | $4,281,630 | 24.5% | 1,770 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Wayne's World | $7,417,583 | $5,712,736 | 77% | $1,704,847 | 23% | 1,878 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | My Cousin Vinny | $6,945,950 | $5,315,543 | 76.5% | $1,630,407 | 23.5% | 1,506 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Ladybugs | $6,190,504 | $5,180,414 | 83.7% | $1,010,090 | 16.3% | 1,528 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Cutting Edge | $5,677,771 | $4,478,919 | 78.9% | $1,198,852 | 21.1% | 775 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 7 | Fried Green Tomatoes | $3,689,740 | $2,814,240 | 76.3% | $875,500 | 23.7% | 1,312 | 14 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Lawnmower Man | $3,363,710 | $2,525,736 | 75.1% | $837,974 | 24.9% | 1,318 | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 9 | Beauty and the Beast | $2,637,218 | $1,782,762 | 67.6% | $854,456 | 32.4% | 1,157 | 20 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | American Me | $1,725,005 | $1,283,430 | 74.4% | $441,575 | 25.6% | 537 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot | $1,378,815 | $1,113,330 | 80.8% | $265,485 | 19.2% | 1,003 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | $1,184,635 | $881,301 | 74.4% | $303,334 | 25.6% | 970 | 12 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Prince of Tides | $992,145 | $721,173 | 72.7% | $270,972 | 27.3% | 602 | 14 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Power of One | $881,228 | $684,358 | 77.7% | $196,870 | 22.3% | 143 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | Ruby | $813,737 | $614,327 | 75.5% | $199,410 | 24.5% | 764 | 1 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | - | false |
| 16 | Bugsy | $525,167 | $398,720 | 75.9% | $126,447 | 24.1% | 356 | 16 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | JFK | $524,747 | $385,043 | 73.4% | $139,704 | 26.6% | 485 | 15 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 18 | Hook | $447,792 | $342,000 | 76.4% | $105,792 | 23.6% | 456 | 17 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | Howards End | $78,396 | $48,813 | 62.3% | $29,583 | 37.7% | 1 | 3 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 20 | Proof | $18,585 | $13,221 | 71.1% | $5,364 | 28.9% | 1 | 2 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| 21 | Roadside Prophets | $15,608 | $11,066 | 70.9% | $4,542 | 29.1% | 1 | 1 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| - | Under Suspicion | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Once Upon a Crime... | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | 22nd Annual International Tournée of Animation Film Festival | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Expanded Entertainment | - | false |
| - | Gladiator | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Shadows and Fog | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Article 99 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | 35 Up | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Noises Off... | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | La Belle Noiseuse | - | - | - | - | - | - | 26 | MK2 Productions | - | false |
| - | Europa Europa | - | - | - | - | - | - | 40 | Orion Classics | - | false |
| - | Medicine Man | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
