| TW | LW | Total | %± LW | Share | Releases | #1 Release
| Gross | % of Total | Week | Distributor
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| 1 | 1 | $31,289,697 | +24.6% | 36.6% | 5 | Medicine Man | $10,427,986 | 33.3% | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - |
| 2 | 7 | $22,924,039 | +1,398.5% | 26.8% | 3 | Wayne's World | $21,701,780 | 94.7% | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - |
| 3 | 2 | $10,338,847 | -7.6% | 12.1% | 2 | Final Analysis | $7,496,673 | 72.5% | 2 | Warner Bros. | - |
| 4 | 3 | $8,743,675 | -6.2% | 10.2% | 3 | Fried Green Tomatoes | $8,743,675 | 100% | 8 | Universal Pictures | - |
| 5 | 4 | $6,577,746 | -14.8% | 7.7% | 3 | Shining Through | $3,793,023 | 57.7% | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - |
| 6 | 5 | $2,765,860 | +7.4% | 3.2% | 1 | The Prince of Tides | $2,765,860 | 100% | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - |
| 7 | 6 | $2,393,792 | -5.4% | 2.8% | 2 | Hook | $2,393,792 | 100% | 11 | TriStar Pictures | - |
| 8 | 8 | $537,214 | +503.7% | 0.6% | 1 | Mississippi Masala | $537,214 | 100% | 3 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - |
