| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Home Alone | $17,754,246 | $14,232,156 | 80.2% | $3,522,090 | 19.8% | 1,764 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Misery | $9,101,359 | $7,107,047 | 78.1% | $1,994,312 | 21.9% | 1,299 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Rookie | $7,431,337 | $5,510,056 | 74.2% | $1,921,281 | 25.8% | 1,862 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 4 | Dances with Wolves | $7,272,350 | $5,385,579 | 74.1% | $1,886,771 | 25.9% | 1,051 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Three Men and a Little Lady | $5,789,025 | $4,575,817 | 79% | $1,213,208 | 21% | 1,282 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Predator 2 | $2,888,544 | $2,101,472 | 72.8% | $787,072 | 27.2% | 1,809 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Rocky V | $2,282,107 | $1,800,838 | 78.9% | $481,269 | 21.1% | 2,093 | 4 | United Artists | - | false |
| 8 | Ghost | $1,893,929 | $1,452,888 | 76.7% | $441,041 | 23.3% | 1,386 | 22 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | The Rescuers Down Under | $1,764,935 | $1,422,169 | 80.6% | $342,766 | 19.4% | 1,237 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Child's Play 2 | $854,998 | $680,098 | 79.5% | $174,900 | 20.5% | 1,000 | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Jacob's Ladder | $614,777 | $429,730 | 69.9% | $185,047 | 30.1% | 877 | 6 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Reversal of Fortune | $539,460 | $401,585 | 74.4% | $137,875 | 25.6% | 434 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | Edward Scissorhands | $254,212 | $159,622 | 62.8% | $94,590 | 37.2% | 2 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 14 | The Grifters | $103,832 | $71,034 | 68.4% | $32,798 | 31.6% | 2 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Quigley Down Under | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
