| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Twins | $16,963,065 | $5,307,830 | 31.3% | $11,655,235 | 68.7% | 1,621 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | Rain Man | $16,666,311 | - | - | - | - | 1,254 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 3 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | $10,810,720 | - | - | - | - | 1,969 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Working Girl | $9,349,193 | - | - | - | - | 1,051 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Oliver & Company | $8,669,818 | - | - | - | - | 1,503 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | $8,594,407 | - | - | - | - | 1,510 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Scrooged | $6,815,021 | - | - | - | - | 1,897 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Tequila Sunrise | $5,626,469 | - | - | - | - | 1,411 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | The Land Before Time | $4,987,175 | - | - | - | - | 1,395 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Hellbound: Hellraiser II | $4,841,837 | - | - | - | - | 1,180 | 1 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | My Stepmother Is an Alien | $2,841,412 | - | - | - | - | 1,148 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Ernest Saves Christmas | $1,444,571 | - | - | - | - | 1,290 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Cocoon: The Return | $1,323,660 | - | - | - | - | 950 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | $910,256 | - | - | - | - | 135 | 2 | United Artists | - | false |
| 15 | Beaches | $348,674 | - | - | - | - | 7 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Mississippi Burning | $326,452 | - | - | - | - | 9 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Dangerous Liaisons | $227,290 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 18 | The Accidental Tourist | $170,176 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 19 | Talk Radio | $163,447 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 20 | Pelle the Conqueror | $65,529 | $45,985 | 70.2% | $19,544 | 29.8% | 10 | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
| 21 | We Think the World of You | $9,046 | $5,465 | 60.4% | $3,581 | 39.6% | 1 | 2 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| - | Child's Play | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | United Artists | - | false |
| - | Haunted Summer | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Cannon Film Distributors | - | false |
