| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Home Alone | $29,115,944 | - | - | - | - | 2,141 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | The Godfather Part III | $22,423,901 | - | - | - | - | 1,901 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Kindergarten Cop | $19,191,170 | $10,965,010 | 57.1% | $8,226,160 | 42.9% | 1,922 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Dances with Wolves | $14,154,904 | - | - | - | - | 1,269 | 8 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Edward Scissorhands | $10,695,396 | - | - | - | - | 1,109 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | Look Who's Talking Too | $10,021,375 | - | - | - | - | 1,625 | 3 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Three Men and a Little Lady | $8,382,439 | - | - | - | - | 1,578 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Mermaids | $7,359,414 | - | - | - | - | 977 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Misery | $7,181,524 | - | - | - | - | 1,329 | 5 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | The Russia House | $6,376,568 | - | - | - | - | 725 | 2 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 11 | The Bonfire of the Vanities | $5,797,718 | - | - | - | - | 1,395 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | The Rescuers Down Under | $4,410,446 | - | - | - | - | 1,487 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Ghost | $3,023,696 | - | - | - | - | 1,011 | 25 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Rookie | $2,735,673 | - | - | - | - | 1,206 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 15 | Almost an Angel | $2,402,664 | - | - | - | - | 1,373 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Havana | $2,174,535 | - | - | - | - | 835 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Awakenings | $633,105 | - | - | - | - | 12 | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Hamlet | $245,406 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 19 | Alice | $228,518 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 20 | Green Card | $180,927 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 21 | The Sheltering Sky | $130,965 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 22 | Come See the Paradise | $129,513 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 23 | The Field | $55,482 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | Avenue Pictures Productions | - | false |
| 24 | The Long Walk Home | $43,942 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | Miramax | - | false |
