| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Mrs. Doubtfire | $9,868,006 | $7,742,001 | 78.5% | $2,126,005 | 21.5% | 2,249 | 11 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Philadelphia | $9,720,326 | $7,316,408 | 75.3% | $2,403,918 | 24.7% | 1,562 | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Intersection | $7,328,515 | $4,001,350 | 54.6% | $3,327,165 | 45.4% | 1,300 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Grumpy Old Men | $6,689,744 | $5,076,733 | 75.9% | $1,613,011 | 24.1% | 1,725 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Blink | $6,608,076 | $4,410,077 | 66.7% | $2,197,999 | 33.3% | 1,527 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 6 | Schindler's List | $4,215,780 | $3,064,898 | 72.7% | $1,150,882 | 27.3% | 354 | 8 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Iron Will | $3,929,150 | $3,174,710 | 80.8% | $754,440 | 19.2% | 1,862 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Pelican Brief | $3,630,113 | $2,826,155 | 77.8% | $803,958 | 22.2% | 1,730 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Shadowlands | $3,349,510 | $2,442,036 | 72.9% | $907,474 | 27.1% | 1,023 | 5 | Savoy Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Tombstone | $3,292,226 | $2,381,638 | 72.3% | $910,588 | 27.7% | 1,709 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Air Up There | $2,361,692 | $1,933,704 | 81.9% | $427,988 | 18.1% | 1,506 | 4 | Miramax | - | false |
| 12 | House Party 3 | $2,170,347 | $1,685,419 | 77.7% | $484,928 | 22.3% | 855 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 13 | Beethoven's 2nd | $1,747,530 | $1,504,845 | 86.1% | $242,685 | 13.9% | 1,413 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | In the Name of the Father | $1,576,892 | $1,124,151 | 71.3% | $452,741 | 28.7% | 176 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Piano | $1,413,422 | $1,019,992 | 72.2% | $393,430 | 27.8% | 470 | 12 | Miramax | - | false |
| 16 | Car 54, Where Are You? | $971,444 | $791,182 | 81.4% | $180,262 | 18.6% | 608 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Six Degrees of Separation | $750,759 | $552,807 | 73.6% | $197,952 | 26.4% | 153 | 8 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 18 | Jurassic Park | $631,480 | $501,685 | 79.4% | $129,795 | 20.6% | 443 | 34 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | Golden Gate | $371,345 | $258,040 | 69.5% | $113,305 | 30.5% | 390 | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 20 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | $183,982 | $140,844 | 76.6% | $43,138 | 23.4% | 468 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 21 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | $155,122 | $109,264 | 70.4% | $45,858 | 29.6% | 19 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 22 | Red Rock West | $18,333 | $11,562 | 63.1% | $6,771 | 36.9% | 1 | 1 | Roxie Releasing | - | false |
| - | The Fugitive | - | - | - | - | - | 22 | 26 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Hard Promises | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Wrestling Ernest Hemingway | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Short Cuts | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | Fine Line Features | - | false |
