| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Rain Man | $17,907,176 | - | - | - | - | 1,254 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 2 | Twins | $14,120,270 | $9,467,920 | 67% | $4,652,350 | 33% | 1,624 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | $9,528,962 | - | - | - | - | 1,969 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Working Girl | $9,125,046 | - | - | - | - | 1,060 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 5 | Oliver & Company | $8,187,330 | - | - | - | - | 1,503 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | $7,693,516 | - | - | - | - | 1,511 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Tequila Sunrise | $5,691,557 | - | - | - | - | 1,411 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 8 | The Land Before Time | $4,136,725 | - | - | - | - | 1,414 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Scrooged | $3,813,211 | - | - | - | - | 1,877 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Hellbound: Hellraiser II | $3,197,144 | - | - | - | - | 1,187 | 2 | New World Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | My Stepmother Is an Alien | $2,061,175 | - | - | - | - | 1,121 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Cocoon: The Return | $1,303,536 | - | - | - | - | 893 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | $750,518 | - | - | - | - | 135 | 3 | United Artists | - | false |
| 14 | Ernest Saves Christmas | $737,900 | - | - | - | - | 970 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Mississippi Burning | $394,840 | - | - | - | - | 9 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Beaches | $366,018 | - | - | - | - | 7 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Dangerous Liaisons | $359,658 | - | - | - | - | 8 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 18 | The Accidental Tourist | $268,658 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 19 | Talk Radio | $166,557 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Some Girls | - | - | - | - | - | 23 | 17 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | We Think the World of You | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
