| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | 1 | Home Alone | $9,844,379 | +8% | 2,009 | -97 | $4,900 | $215,180,677 | 12 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 2 | 4 | Dances with Wolves | $6,141,945 | +6.2% | 1,343 | +41 | $4,573 | $100,006,882 | 13 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 3 | 3 | White Fang | $5,729,575 | -4.3% | 1,259 | +92 | $4,550 | $18,236,230 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 4 | 2 | Awakenings | $5,638,711 | -12.4% | 1,330 | +5 | $4,239 | $33,713,911 | 7 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 5 | 19 | Once Around | $5,256,300 | +583.3% | 725 | +673 | $7,250 | $6,412,322 | 3 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 6 | 7 | Green Card | $5,147,855 | +28.6% | 703 | +322 | $7,322 | $16,338,126 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 7 | 5 | Kindergarten Cop | $4,659,670 | -15.5% | 1,709 | -192 | $2,726 | $73,270,880 | 7 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 8 | 9 | Hamlet | $3,179,826 | -7.5% | 525 | - | $6,056 | $11,646,182 | 7 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 9 | 6 | The Grifters | $3,064,290 | -24.9% | 780 | +14 | $3,928 | $7,440,508 | 9 | Miramax | false | false |
| 10 | - | Popcorn | $3,015,124 | - | 1,055 | - | $2,857 | $3,015,124 | 1 | - | true | false |
| 11 | - | Run | $2,877,409 | - | 1,173 | - | $2,453 | $2,877,409 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | true | false |
| 12 | 8 | Flight of the Intruder | $2,383,577 | -34.4% | 1,249 | -240 | $1,908 | $12,738,316 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 13 | 10 | Lionheart | $2,143,898 | -35% | 1,054 | -411 | $2,034 | $20,096,701 | 4 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 14 | 11 | Edward Scissorhands | $1,992,881 | -23.2% | 996 | -372 | $2,000 | $47,978,122 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 15 | 12 | The Godfather Part III | $1,943,100 | -21.1% | 775 | -329 | $2,507 | $61,520,715 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 16 | 14 | Mermaids | $1,694,298 | -10.2% | 944 | -148 | $1,794 | $31,391,628 | 8 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 17 | 15 | Alice | $1,669,533 | +7.9% | 325 | +64 | $5,137 | $4,016,046 | 7 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 18 | 16 | Misery | $1,436,712 | +0.5% | 819 | -52 | $1,754 | $53,588,785 | 10 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 19 | 13 | Not Without My Daughter | $1,425,991 | -40.4% | 691 | -363 | $2,063 | $12,535,359 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false | false |
| 20 | 18 | Look Who's Talking Too | $1,362,915 | +2.9% | 977 | -83 | $1,395 | $41,869,929 | 8 | TriStar Pictures | false | false |
| 21 | - | Book of Love | $740,493 | - | 227 | - | $3,262 | $740,493 | 1 | New Line Cinema | true | false |
| 22 | - | Meet the Applegates | $350,486 | - | 155 | - | $2,261 | $350,486 | 1 | Triton Pictures | true | false |
| 23 | 20 | Warlock | $206,227 | -43.4% | 74 | -80 | $2,786 | $2,208,337 | 4 | Trimark Pictures | false | false |
| 24 | - | Queens Logic | $188,886 | - | 37 | - | $5,105 | $188,886 | 1 | New Line Cinema | true | false |
