| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III | $8,821,623 | $7,405,465 | 84% | $1,416,158 | 16% | 2,087 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | Born Yesterday | $7,305,417 | $5,911,343 | 80.9% | $1,394,074 | 19.1% | 1,297 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Point of No Return | $7,105,171 | $5,508,831 | 77.5% | $1,596,340 | 22.5% | 1,659 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | The Crying Game | $4,463,447 | $3,399,248 | 76.2% | $1,064,199 | 23.8% | 1,001 | 18 | Miramax | - | false |
| 5 | Groundhog Day | $3,805,677 | $3,004,239 | 78.9% | $801,438 | 21.1% | 1,726 | 7 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Hear No Evil | $3,383,226 | $2,641,474 | 78.1% | $741,752 | 21.9% | 1,430 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Falling Down | $3,073,028 | $2,380,609 | 77.5% | $692,419 | 22.5% | 1,557 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Fire in the Sky | $3,070,856 | $2,408,590 | 78.4% | $662,266 | 21.6% | 1,435 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | CB4 | $2,318,285 | $1,852,625 | 79.9% | $465,660 | 20.1% | 1,203 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | A Far Off Place | $2,125,128 | $1,721,672 | 81% | $403,456 | 19% | 1,451 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Scent of a Woman | $1,907,115 | $1,317,525 | 69.1% | $589,590 | 30.9% | 746 | 15 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Aladdin | $1,837,181 | $1,325,527 | 72.2% | $511,654 | 27.8% | 1,020 | 20 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey | $1,639,568 | $1,246,664 | 76% | $392,904 | 24% | 1,336 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Unforgiven | $1,508,417 | $855,188 | 56.7% | $653,229 | 43.3% | 484 | 34 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | Married to It | $1,413,168 | $1,077,278 | 76.2% | $335,890 | 23.8% | 822 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | A Few Good Men | $971,408 | $778,322 | 80.1% | $193,086 | 19.9% | 600 | 16 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them | $630,466 | $525,004 | 83.3% | $105,462 | 16.7% | 630 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 18 | Like Water for Chocolate | $234,129 | $164,038 | 70.1% | $70,091 | 29.9% | 19 | 6 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Howards End | - | $837,562 | - | - | - | 547 | 55 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| - | The Stolen Children | - | - | - | - | - | 26 | 5 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Mad Dog and Glory | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Rich in Love | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Fifty/Fifty | - | $104,450 | - | - | - | - | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| - | Amos & Andrew | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Ethan Frome | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Miramax | - | false |
