| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Rain Man | $12,964,687 | $9,245,626 | 71.3% | $3,719,061 | 28.7% | 1,256 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 2 | Twins | $9,068,045 | $7,081,800 | 78.1% | $1,986,245 | 21.9% | 1,628 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Accidental Tourist | $8,180,212 | $6,118,618 | 74.8% | $2,061,594 | 25.2% | 863 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Working Girl | $6,709,416 | $5,011,589 | 74.7% | $1,697,827 | 25.3% | 1,062 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | $6,278,931 | $4,735,805 | 75.4% | $1,543,126 | 24.6% | 1,939 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | $4,614,709 | $3,515,558 | 76.2% | $1,099,151 | 23.8% | 1,513 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Tequila Sunrise | $3,767,369 | $3,003,110 | 79.7% | $764,259 | 20.3% | 1,392 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | Oliver & Company | $3,052,389 | $2,586,924 | 84.8% | $465,465 | 15.2% | 1,475 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Scrooged | $1,927,690 | $1,538,761 | 79.8% | $388,929 | 20.2% | 1,744 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Hellbound: Hellraiser II | $1,884,248 | $1,441,014 | 76.5% | $443,234 | 23.5% | 1,103 | 3 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | The Land Before Time | $1,589,950 | $1,329,235 | 83.6% | $260,715 | 16.4% | 1,303 | 8 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | My Stepmother Is an Alien | $1,031,499 | $1,031,499 | 100% | $0 | - | 1,084 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | $439,489 | $342,665 | 78% | $96,824 | 22% | 127 | 4 | United Artists | - | false |
| 14 | Mississippi Burning | $388,877 | $255,914 | 65.8% | $132,963 | 34.2% | 11 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Beaches | $328,585 | $202,492 | 61.6% | $126,093 | 38.4% | 7 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Dangerous Liaisons | $308,892 | $187,297 | 60.6% | $121,595 | 39.4% | 8 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 17 | Talk Radio | $113,316 | $75,562 | 66.7% | $37,754 | 33.3% | 6 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Another Woman | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | 13 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Some Girls | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Cocoon: The Return | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Spookies | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Sony Video Software Company (SVSC) Inc. | - | false |
| - | Meatballs III: Summer Job | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Moviestore Entertainment | - | false |
| - | Ernest Saves Christmas | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
