| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Twins | $12,176,400 | $7,781,130 | 63.9% | $4,395,270 | 36.1% | 1,452 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Rain Man | $11,439,832 | $7,005,719 | 61.2% | $4,434,113 | 38.8% | 1,248 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 3 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | $8,938,002 | $5,607,011 | 62.7% | $3,330,991 | 37.3% | 1,937 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Scrooged | $7,515,978 | $4,561,210 | 60.7% | $2,954,768 | 39.3% | 1,797 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | $7,233,595 | $3,840,498 | 53.1% | $3,393,097 | 46.9% | 1,466 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Tequila Sunrise | $4,561,207 | $3,008,168 | 66% | $1,553,039 | 34% | 1,394 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 7 | Oliver & Company | $4,372,410 | $2,302,040 | 52.6% | $2,070,370 | 47.4% | 1,165 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Land Before Time | $2,868,920 | $1,511,640 | 52.7% | $1,357,280 | 47.3% | 1,326 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Ernest Saves Christmas | $1,687,288 | $950,189 | 56.3% | $737,099 | 43.7% | 1,307 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | My Stepmother Is an Alien | $1,430,026 | $1,105,886 | 77.3% | $324,140 | 22.7% | 1,110 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Child's Play | $1,018,593 | $669,579 | 65.7% | $349,014 | 34.3% | 906 | 6 | United Artists | - | false |
| 12 | Cocoon: The Return | $945,353 | $572,505 | 60.6% | $372,848 | 39.4% | 997 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | $882,356 | $543,588 | 61.6% | $338,768 | 38.4% | 135 | 1 | United Artists | - | false |
| 14 | Mississippi Burning | $244,363 | $160,628 | 65.7% | $83,735 | 34.3% | 9 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Torch Song Trilogy | $132,733 | $70,022 | 52.8% | $62,711 | 47.2% | 6 | 1 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 16 | Haunted Summer | $7,156 | $4,726 | 66% | $2,430 | 34% | 1 | 1 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
| 17 | Pelle the Conqueror | $3,950 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 18 | We Think the World of You | $604 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| - | Iron Eagle II | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Accused | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
