| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | While You Were Sleeping | $12,306,013 | $9,288,915 | 75.5% | $3,017,098 | 24.5% | 1,421 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Bad Boys | $8,824,717 | $7,012,808 | 79.5% | $1,811,909 | 20.5% | 2,132 | 3 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 3 | Kiss of Death | $6,962,496 | $5,317,066 | 76.4% | $1,645,430 | 23.6% | 1,623 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | Rob Roy | $6,430,544 | $5,021,901 | 78.1% | $1,408,643 | 21.9% | 1,885 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 5 | A Goofy Movie | $5,360,942 | $4,525,476 | 84.4% | $835,466 | 15.6% | 2,116 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Don Juan DeMarco | $3,745,001 | $2,614,487 | 69.8% | $1,130,514 | 30.2% | 1,226 | 3 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 7 | Jury Duty | $3,554,602 | $3,011,084 | 84.7% | $543,518 | 15.3% | 2,169 | 2 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 8 | Tommy Boy | $3,090,221 | $2,589,315 | 83.8% | $500,906 | 16.2% | 2,069 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Circle of Friends | $2,394,004 | $1,814,920 | 75.8% | $579,084 | 24.2% | 902 | 6 | Savoy Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | New Jersey Drive | $2,175,792 | $1,395,028 | 64.1% | $780,764 | 35.9% | 210 | 1 | Gramercy Pictures (I) | - | false |
| 11 | Outbreak | $2,099,323 | $1,641,752 | 78.2% | $457,571 | 21.8% | 1,503 | 7 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | Forrest Gump | $1,682,842 | $1,233,350 | 73.3% | $449,492 | 26.7% | 1,020 | 43 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Dolores Claiborne | $1,530,872 | $1,204,833 | 78.7% | $326,039 | 21.3% | 1,232 | 5 | Sony Pictures Releasing | - | false |
| 14 | The Cure | $1,506,135 | $1,206,415 | 80.1% | $299,720 | 19.9% | 832 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Major Payne | $1,335,910 | $1,122,125 | 84% | $213,785 | 16% | 1,175 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | The Basketball Diaries | $1,044,490 | $765,335 | 73.3% | $279,155 | 26.7% | 317 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 17 | Burnt by the Sun | $87,396 | $60,074 | 68.7% | $27,322 | 31.3% | 9 | 1 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 18 | Swimming with Sharks | $51,460 | $34,703 | 67.4% | $16,757 | 32.6% | 4 | 1 | Trimark Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | Crumb | $36,043 | $19,859 | 55.1% | $16,184 | 44.9% | 1 | 1 | Sony Pictures Classics | - | false |
| 20 | Moving the Mountain | $901 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | October Films | - | false |
| - | Jefferson in Paris | - | - | - | - | - | 351 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Priest | - | - | - | - | - | 154 | 5 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Stuart Saves His Family | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Pulp Fiction | - | - | - | - | - | - | 28 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | The Sum of Us | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| - | The Pebble and the Penguin | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Muriel's Wedding | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Clean, Shaven | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Strand Releasing | - | false |
