| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | Wayne's World | $11,512,804 | +4.8% | 1,878 | - | $6,130 | $71,320,086 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 2 | - | My Cousin Vinny | $10,210,918 | - | 1,227 | - | $8,321 | $10,210,918 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | true | false |
| 3 | 2 | The Lawnmower Man | $7,115,748 | -31.2% | 1,298 | +22 | $5,482 | $17,460,840 | 2 | New Line Cinema | false | false |
| 4 | - | American Me | $4,682,075 | - | 830 | - | $5,641 | $4,682,075 | 1 | Universal Pictures | true | false |
| 5 | 3 | Fried Green Tomatoes | $4,664,410 | -12.1% | 1,327 | -4 | $3,515 | $58,469,189 | 12 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 6 | - | Article 99 | $3,246,441 | - | 1,262 | - | $2,572 | $3,246,441 | 1 | Orion Pictures | true | false |
| 7 | 6 | Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot | $2,714,400 | -32.9% | 1,785 | -173 | $1,520 | $20,850,475 | 4 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 8 | 8 | Medicine Man | $2,619,706 | -25% | 1,190 | -92 | $2,201 | $37,923,582 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 9 | 9 | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | $2,556,807 | -24.5% | 1,429 | -161 | $1,789 | $76,636,215 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 10 | 5 | Gladiator | $2,373,777 | -41.7% | 1,356 | +61 | $1,750 | $6,447,344 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 11 | 4 | Once Upon a Crime... | $2,313,882 | -45.4% | 1,101 | - | $2,101 | $6,551,498 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false | false |
| 12 | 10 | Beauty and the Beast | $2,284,608 | -4% | 1,171 | -82 | $1,950 | $121,221,962 | 18 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 13 | 7 | Memoirs of an Invisible Man | $1,953,629 | -45.9% | 1,387 | -366 | $1,408 | $11,500,522 | 3 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 14 | 17 | The Mambo Kings | $1,737,853 | +315.3% | 185 | +154 | $9,393 | $2,611,604 | 3 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 15 | 15 | This Is My Life | $947,082 | +15.1% | 326 | +201 | $2,905 | $2,277,786 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 16 | 16 | Hook | $452,900 | -3.7% | 426 | -78 | $1,063 | $115,605,644 | 15 | TriStar Pictures | false | false |
| 17 | - | Howards End | $96,958 | - | 1 | - | $96,958 | $96,958 | 1 | Sony Pictures Classics | true | false |
| 18 | - | Raise the Red Lantern | $28,943 | - | 1 | - | $28,943 | $28,943 | 1 | Orion Classics | true | false |
| 19 | - | Highway to Hell | $18,118 | - | 14 | - | $1,294 | $18,118 | 1 | Hemdale | true | false |
| 20 | - | American Dream | $2,232 | - | - | - | - | $2,232 | 1 | Miramax | true | false |
