| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Philadelphia | $11,588,955 | $8,830,605 | 76.2% | $2,758,350 | 23.8% | 1,295 | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Mrs. Doubtfire | $11,071,596 | $8,798,118 | 79.5% | $2,273,478 | 20.5% | 2,290 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 3 | Intersection | $7,818,502 | $7,818,502 | 100% | $0 | - | 1,300 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Grumpy Old Men | $7,264,222 | $5,689,817 | 78.3% | $1,574,405 | 21.7% | 1,676 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Iron Will | $5,069,546 | $4,114,120 | 81.2% | $955,426 | 18.8% | 2,036 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Schindler's List | $4,798,570 | $3,405,990 | 71% | $1,392,580 | 29% | 343 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | The Pelican Brief | $4,661,778 | $3,711,685 | 79.6% | $950,093 | 20.4% | 1,809 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Tombstone | $4,434,360 | $3,330,647 | 75.1% | $1,103,713 | 24.9% | 1,817 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Shadowlands | $4,197,243 | $3,170,830 | 75.6% | $1,026,413 | 24.4% | 1,001 | 4 | Savoy Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | House Party 3 | $3,982,098 | $3,281,562 | 82.4% | $700,536 | 17.6% | 848 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 11 | The Air Up There | $3,465,869 | $2,892,783 | 83.5% | $573,086 | 16.5% | 1,702 | 3 | Miramax | - | false |
| 12 | Beethoven's 2nd | $2,343,805 | $2,025,010 | 86.4% | $318,795 | 13.6% | 1,620 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | In the Name of the Father | $1,947,460 | $1,430,020 | 73.4% | $517,440 | 26.6% | 176 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit | $1,609,834 | $1,314,993 | 81.7% | $294,841 | 18.3% | 1,172 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Piano | $1,471,678 | $1,111,530 | 75.5% | $360,148 | 24.5% | 500 | 11 | Miramax | - | false |
| 16 | Six Degrees of Separation | $777,871 | $584,854 | 75.2% | $193,017 | 24.8% | 109 | 7 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 17 | Jurassic Park | $597,600 | $501,600 | 83.9% | $96,000 | 16.1% | 480 | 33 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Short Cuts | $428,601 | $320,333 | 74.7% | $108,268 | 25.3% | 165 | 17 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
| 19 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | $192,951 | $136,336 | 70.7% | $56,615 | 29.3% | 17 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 20 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | $58,613 | $50,043 | 85.4% | $8,570 | 14.6% | 155 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Wrestling Ernest Hemingway | - | - | - | - | - | 47 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Where the Rivers Flow North | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Caledonia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Wayne's World 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Saint of Fort Washington | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Death Wish: The Face of Death | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Trimark Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Clothes in the Wardrobe | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | Cabin Boy | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Heaven & Earth | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Three Colors: Blue | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Miramax | - | false |
