| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Mrs. Doubtfire | $20,643,775 | $16,346,568 | 79.2% | $4,297,207 | 20.8% | 2,325 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | The Pelican Brief | $17,005,782 | $13,129,302 | 77.2% | $3,876,480 | 22.8% | 2,008 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 3 | Tombstone | $11,922,766 | $8,720,255 | 73.1% | $3,202,511 | 26.9% | 1,955 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Grumpy Old Men | $9,836,912 | $7,488,527 | 76.1% | $2,348,385 | 23.9% | 1,244 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit | $9,620,922 | $8,234,480 | 85.6% | $1,386,442 | 14.4% | 2,106 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Beethoven's 2nd | $8,765,165 | $7,567,360 | 86.3% | $1,197,805 | 13.7% | 2,048 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Wayne's World 2 | $5,147,566 | $4,012,807 | 78% | $1,134,759 | 22% | 2,240 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Piano | $3,398,823 | $2,369,154 | 69.7% | $1,029,669 | 30.3% | 523 | 8 | Miramax | - | false |
| 9 | Ghost in the Machine | $3,206,727 | $1,854,431 | 57.8% | $1,352,296 | 42.2% | 1,031 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Schindler's List | $2,719,861 | $1,649,101 | 60.6% | $1,070,760 | 39.4% | 76 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Geronimo: An American Legend | $2,620,074 | $2,010,680 | 76.7% | $609,394 | 23.3% | 1,636 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The Three Musketeers | $1,818,843 | $1,518,663 | 83.5% | $300,180 | 16.5% | 947 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | $1,709,976 | $1,406,291 | 82.2% | $303,685 | 17.8% | 1,506 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 14 | A Perfect World | $1,478,980 | $1,112,458 | 75.2% | $366,522 | 24.8% | 1,026 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | Cool Runnings | $1,421,221 | $1,098,908 | 77.3% | $322,313 | 22.7% | 814 | 14 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Addams Family Values | $1,353,632 | $1,096,006 | 81% | $257,626 | 19% | 1,256 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Jurassic Park | $1,102,840 | $820,770 | 74.4% | $282,070 | 25.6% | 608 | 30 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Heaven & Earth | $819,922 | $562,578 | 68.6% | $257,344 | 31.4% | 63 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 19 | Six Degrees of Separation | $355,087 | $235,277 | 66.3% | $119,810 | 33.7% | 19 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 20 | Philadelphia | $295,947 | $153,879 | 52% | $142,068 | 48% | 4 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 21 | In the Name of the Father | $255,159 | $109,805 | 43% | $145,354 | 57% | 4 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 22 | Shadowlands | $184,243 | $81,082 | 44% | $103,161 | 56% | 3 | 1 | Savoy Pictures | - | false |
| 23 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | $122,840 | $82,547 | 67.2% | $40,293 | 32.8% | 6 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Daughters of the Dust | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Kino International | - | false |
| - | Sommersby | - | - | - | - | - | - | 48 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
