| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Home Alone | $12,528,153 | - | - | - | - | 2,112 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Awakenings | $9,089,009 | - | - | - | - | 1,311 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Kindergarten Cop | $7,943,240 | $5,969,190 | 75.2% | $1,974,050 | 24.8% | 1,871 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Dances with Wolves | $7,007,328 | - | - | - | - | 1,301 | 11 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Flight of the Intruder | $6,718,827 | - | - | - | - | 1,489 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | White Fang | $6,522,487 | - | - | - | - | 1,108 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Lionheart | $5,663,126 | - | - | - | - | 1,485 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Green Card | $4,631,320 | - | - | - | - | 341 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Hamlet | $4,184,690 | - | - | - | - | 522 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | The Godfather Part III | $3,964,712 | - | - | - | - | 1,358 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Edward Scissorhands | $3,808,899 | - | - | - | - | 1,319 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | Not Without My Daughter | $3,754,095 | - | - | - | - | 1,141 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 13 | Eve of Destruction | $2,590,580 | - | - | - | - | 985 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Mermaids | $2,578,524 | - | - | - | - | 1,154 | 6 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Look Who's Talking Too | $1,969,388 | - | - | - | - | 1,167 | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Misery | $1,899,769 | - | - | - | - | 891 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Three Men and a Little Lady | $1,503,313 | - | - | - | - | 828 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | The Russia House | $1,325,227 | - | - | - | - | 537 | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 19 | Ghost | $1,233,428 | - | - | - | - | 648 | 28 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 20 | Warlock | $635,373 | - | - | - | - | 168 | 2 | Trimark Pictures | - | false |
| 21 | Once Around | $386,788 | - | - | - | - | 16 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 22 | Cadence | $173,601 | - | - | - | - | 31 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 23 | Alice | $152,947 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 24 | Men of Respect | $104,498 | - | - | - | - | 33 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Come See the Paradise | - | - | - | - | - | 97 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Vincent & Theo | - | - | - | - | - | 59 | 12 | Hemdale | - | false |
| - | The Grifters | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 7 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Hidden Agenda | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Hemdale | - | false |
| - | The Sheltering Sky | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Terror Within | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Concorde Pictures | - | false |
