| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | - | Pretty Woman | $11,280,591 | - | 1,325 | - | $8,513 | $11,280,591 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | true | false |
| 2 | 1 | The Hunt for Red October | $9,111,680 | -17.7% | 1,817 | - | $5,014 | $67,287,859 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 3 | 2 | Joe Versus the Volcano | $5,250,004 | -25.2% | 1,795 | -4 | $2,924 | $26,185,019 | 3 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 4 | 6 | Driving Miss Daisy | $3,682,465 | +28.1% | 1,652 | +299 | $2,229 | $74,523,531 | 15 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 5 | 4 | House Party | $3,200,568 | -10.4% | 700 | +150 | $4,572 | $13,355,221 | 3 | New Line Cinema | false | false |
| 6 | 3 | Lord of the Flies | $2,460,163 | -44.2% | 919 | +31 | $2,677 | $8,342,868 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 7 | 5 | Blue Steel | $1,656,271 | -42.8% | 1,306 | -1 | $1,268 | $5,604,303 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false | false |
| 8 | 7 | Bad Influence | $1,463,086 | -43.7% | 1,090 | -210 | $1,342 | $10,010,411 | 3 | Triumph Releasing Corporation | false | false |
| 9 | 10 | Born on the Fourth of July | $1,324,680 | +6.7% | 1,064 | +34 | $1,245 | $65,441,414 | 14 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 10 | 9 | Hard to Kill | $1,167,738 | -36.2% | 1,006 | -259 | $1,160 | $41,785,305 | 7 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 11 | - | A Shock to the System | $1,002,158 | - | 345 | - | $2,904 | $1,002,158 | 1 | Corsair Pictures | true | false |
| 12 | 8 | Lambada | $929,831 | -54.2% | 1,056 | -61 | $880 | $3,486,714 | 2 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 13 | 17 | Nuns on the Run | $839,505 | +27.4% | 107 | +31 | $7,845 | $1,767,506 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 14 | 15 | My Left Foot | $800,502 | +14.2% | 404 | +73 | $1,981 | $8,773,422 | 20 | Miramax | false | false |
| 15 | - | The Fourth War | $776,449 | - | 1,005 | - | $772 | $776,449 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | true | false |
| 16 | 16 | Glory | $537,900 | -18.7% | 652 | -71 | $825 | $23,235,499 | 15 | TriStar Pictures | false | false |
| 17 | 13 | The Forbidden Dance | $472,255 | -34.5% | 555 | -82 | $850 | $1,410,734 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 18 | 18 | Cinema Paradiso | $184,715 | +28.8% | 39 | +13 | $4,736 | $1,213,487 | 8 | Miramax | false | false |
