| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Rain Man | $9,494,171 | $7,003,147 | 73.8% | $2,491,024 | 26.2% | 1,509 | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 2 | Beaches | $6,758,164 | $4,790,326 | 70.9% | $1,967,838 | 29.1% | 809 | 5 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Twins | $6,157,535 | $4,821,600 | 78.3% | $1,335,935 | 21.7% | 1,641 | 7 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | The Accidental Tourist | $4,313,531 | $3,314,663 | 76.8% | $998,868 | 23.2% | 954 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Working Girl | $4,094,818 | $3,077,747 | 75.2% | $1,017,071 | 24.8% | 1,148 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | $3,980,555 | $3,031,039 | 76.2% | $949,516 | 23.8% | 1,687 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Mississippi Burning | $3,751,494 | $2,652,537 | 70.7% | $1,098,957 | 29.3% | 568 | 7 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | $2,760,709 | $2,108,291 | 76.4% | $652,418 | 23.6% | 1,515 | 6 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | DeepStar Six | $1,883,390 | $1,391,910 | 73.9% | $491,480 | 26.1% | 1,118 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Oliver & Company | $1,641,595 | $1,371,888 | 83.6% | $269,707 | 16.4% | 1,454 | 10 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Tequila Sunrise | $1,409,563 | $1,107,646 | 78.6% | $301,917 | 21.4% | 1,164 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | The January Man | $1,343,809 | $937,976 | 69.8% | $405,833 | 30.2% | 883 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 13 | I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | $1,328,664 | $1,026,903 | 77.3% | $301,761 | 22.7% | 266 | 6 | United Artists | - | false |
| 14 | Dangerous Liaisons | $1,281,380 | $864,457 | 67.5% | $416,923 | 32.5% | 74 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | The Land Before Time | $925,250 | $777,660 | 84% | $147,590 | 16% | 1,144 | 10 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Talk Radio | $868,432 | $587,977 | 67.7% | $280,455 | 32.3% | 653 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Rachel River | $19,579 | $13,705 | 70% | $5,874 | 30% | 4 | 1 | Taurus Entertainment Company | - | false |
| 18 | Under the Sun of Satan | $12,184 | $6,987 | 57.4% | $5,197 | 42.6% | 1 | 1 | Alive Films | - | false |
| - | Gleaming the Cube | - | - | - | - | - | 469 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Vincent | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | 23 | Roxie Releasing | - | false |
| - | The Chocolate War | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 10 | Management Company Entertainment Group (MCEG) | - | false |
| - | Pumpkinhead 1989 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | United Artists | - | false |
| - | Scrooged | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
