| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Home Alone | $23,396,819 | - | - | - | - | 2,108 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Kindergarten Cop | $16,136,905 | $7,918,560 | 49.1% | $8,218,345 | 50.9% | 1,916 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Godfather Part III | $14,023,983 | - | - | - | - | 1,820 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Dances with Wolves | $9,301,126 | - | - | - | - | 1,254 | 7 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Look Who's Talking Too | $9,170,801 | - | - | - | - | 1,616 | 2 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Edward Scissorhands | $9,080,794 | - | - | - | - | 1,087 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Misery | $6,085,473 | - | - | - | - | 1,320 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | The Russia House | $6,033,291 | - | - | - | - | 717 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 9 | Three Men and a Little Lady | $5,888,885 | - | - | - | - | 1,578 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | The Bonfire of the Vanities | $5,697,250 | - | - | - | - | 1,373 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 11 | Mermaids | $5,141,742 | - | - | - | - | 968 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The Rookie | $3,327,941 | - | - | - | - | 1,565 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 13 | Almost an Angel | $2,722,696 | - | - | - | - | 1,373 | 1 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Rescuers Down Under | $2,675,623 | - | - | - | - | 1,487 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Havana | $2,139,825 | - | - | - | - | 831 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Ghost | $2,038,628 | - | - | - | - | 988 | 24 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Awakenings | $607,933 | - | - | - | - | 12 | 1 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Hamlet | $210,566 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 19 | The Sheltering Sky | $114,002 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 20 | Alice | $94,238 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 21 | Come See the Paradise | $92,773 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 22 | Green Card | $83,058 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 23 | The Long Walk Home | $33,074 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| 24 | The Field | $32,632 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | Avenue Pictures Productions | - | false |
| - | Predator 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Rocky V | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | United Artists | - | false |
