| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | Home Alone | $8,215,408 | +13% | 2,009 | -97 | $4,089 | $213,551,706 | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 2 | 5 | Dances with Wolves | $4,787,941 | +11.2% | 1,343 | +41 | $3,565 | $98,652,878 | 13 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 3 | 3 | White Fang | $4,743,907 | -0.4% | 1,259 | +92 | $3,767 | $17,250,562 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 4 | 2 | Awakenings | $4,476,785 | -8.4% | 1,330 | +5 | $3,366 | $32,551,985 | 7 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 5 | 19 | Once Around | $4,136,125 | +660.2% | 725 | +673 | $5,705 | $5,292,147 | 3 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 6 | 7 | Green Card | $4,050,705 | +34.9% | 703 | +322 | $5,762 | $15,240,976 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 7 | 4 | Kindergarten Cop | $3,880,400 | -12.1% | 1,744 | -167 | $2,225 | $72,491,610 | 7 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 8 | - | Popcorn | $2,563,365 | - | 1,055 | - | $2,429 | $2,563,365 | 1 | - | true | false |
| 9 | 6 | The Grifters | $2,483,250 | -25% | 780 | +14 | $3,183 | $6,859,468 | 9 | Miramax | false | false |
| 10 | 10 | Hamlet | $2,341,120 | -3.1% | 525 | - | $4,459 | $10,807,476 | 7 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 11 | - | Run | $2,222,056 | - | 1,173 | - | $1,894 | $2,222,056 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | true | false |
| 12 | 8 | Flight of the Intruder | $1,886,405 | -31.6% | 1,249 | -240 | $1,510 | $12,241,144 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 13 | 9 | Lionheart | $1,696,523 | -33.1% | 1,054 | -411 | $1,609 | $19,649,326 | 4 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 14 | 11 | Edward Scissorhands | $1,602,691 | -20.5% | 996 | -372 | $1,609 | $47,587,932 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 15 | 12 | The Godfather Part III | $1,501,912 | -16.2% | 775 | -329 | $1,937 | $61,079,527 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 16 | 15 | Alice | $1,305,353 | +17.9% | 325 | +64 | $4,016 | $3,651,866 | 6 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 17 | 14 | Mermaids | $1,278,679 | -9% | 944 | -148 | $1,354 | $30,976,009 | 8 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 18 | 16 | Look Who's Talking Too | $1,143,090 | +4.7% | 977 | -83 | $1,170 | $41,650,104 | 8 | TriStar Pictures | false | false |
| 19 | 18 | Misery | $1,081,421 | +4.8% | 819 | -52 | $1,320 | $53,233,494 | 10 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 20 | 13 | Not Without My Daughter | $1,048,842 | -40.2% | 691 | -363 | $1,517 | $12,158,210 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false | false |
| 21 | - | Book of Love | $596,131 | - | 227 | - | $2,626 | $596,131 | 1 | New Line Cinema | true | false |
| 22 | - | Meet the Applegates | $274,815 | - | 155 | - | $1,773 | $274,815 | 1 | Triton Pictures | true | false |
| 23 | - | Queens Logic | $144,341 | - | 37 | - | $3,901 | $144,341 | 1 | New Line Cinema | true | false |
| 24 | 20 | Warlock | $119,530 | -54.7% | 74 | -80 | $1,615 | $2,121,640 | 4 | Trimark Pictures | false | false |
