| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Pelican Brief | $24,872,626 | $16,864,404 | 67.8% | $8,008,222 | 32.2% | 1,993 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Mrs. Doubtfire | $16,237,751 | $9,056,287 | 55.8% | $7,181,464 | 44.2% | 2,290 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Beethoven's 2nd | $10,746,865 | $6,017,225 | 56% | $4,729,640 | 44% | 2,026 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Wayne's World 2 | $10,444,521 | $6,276,651 | 60.1% | $4,167,870 | 39.9% | 2,400 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit | $9,285,472 | $5,238,317 | 56.4% | $4,047,155 | 43.6% | 2,149 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Geronimo: An American Legend | $3,888,572 | $2,310,738 | 59.4% | $1,577,834 | 40.6% | 1,605 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Three Musketeers | $2,576,923 | $1,248,383 | 48.4% | $1,328,540 | 51.6% | 1,280 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | A Perfect World | $2,403,598 | $1,472,284 | 61.2% | $931,314 | 38.8% | 1,710 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Addams Family Values | $2,092,516 | $1,169,495 | 55.9% | $923,021 | 44.1% | 1,581 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Cool Runnings | $1,648,345 | $853,218 | 51.8% | $795,127 | 48.2% | 886 | 12 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Piano | $1,479,231 | $1,071,907 | 72.5% | $407,324 | 27.5% | 259 | 6 | Miramax | - | false |
| 12 | Carlito's Way | $1,475,200 | $824,820 | 55.9% | $650,380 | 44.1% | 932 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Schindler's List | $1,229,734 | $656,636 | 53.4% | $573,098 | 46.6% | 25 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Jurassic Park | $1,207,490 | $694,575 | 57.5% | $512,915 | 42.5% | 725 | 28 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | $125,652 | $74,421 | 59.2% | $51,231 | 40.8% | 6 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Six Degrees of Separation | $102,360 | $35,857 | 35% | $66,503 | 65% | 2 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 17 | Naked | $72,430 | $36,463 | 50.3% | $35,967 | 49.7% | 4 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 18 | Wrestling Ernest Hemingway | $23,651 | $14,871 | 62.9% | $8,780 | 37.1% | 4 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 19 | Faraway, So Close! | $21,379 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 20 | The Clothes in the Wardrobe | $15,945 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | My Life | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Bank Robber | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | IRS Media | - | false |
| - | The Trial | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Angelika Films | - | false |
| - | The Hawk | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Castle Hill Productions | - | false |
| - | Wild West | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
