| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Home Alone | $15,521,742 | $12,626,851 | 81.4% | $2,894,891 | 18.6% | 2,173 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Kindergarten Cop | $11,689,740 | $9,452,100 | 80.9% | $2,237,640 | 19.1% | 1,929 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | The Godfather Part III | $11,021,075 | $8,290,621 | 75.2% | $2,730,454 | 24.8% | 1,922 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Dances with Wolves | $10,020,961 | $7,329,451 | 73.1% | $2,691,510 | 26.9% | 1,282 | 9 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Edward Scissorhands | $6,366,613 | $5,100,408 | 80.1% | $1,266,205 | 19.9% | 1,267 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 6 | Misery | $5,067,496 | $3,914,163 | 77.2% | $1,153,333 | 22.8% | 1,370 | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Look Who's Talking Too | $5,005,233 | $4,213,026 | 84.2% | $792,207 | 15.8% | 1,647 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Mermaids | $4,814,366 | $3,704,258 | 76.9% | $1,110,108 | 23.1% | 1,002 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Three Men and a Little Lady | $4,300,642 | $3,528,204 | 82% | $772,438 | 18% | 1,614 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | The Russia House | $4,016,021 | $3,048,460 | 75.9% | $967,561 | 24.1% | 768 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 11 | The Bonfire of the Vanities | $2,919,218 | $2,192,954 | 75.1% | $726,264 | 24.9% | 1,333 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | Ghost | $2,038,653 | $1,520,073 | 74.6% | $518,580 | 25.4% | 758 | 26 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | The Rookie | $1,649,172 | $1,224,696 | 74.3% | $424,476 | 25.7% | 1,016 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 14 | The Rescuers Down Under | $1,602,166 | $1,401,216 | 87.5% | $200,950 | 12.5% | 1,424 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Awakenings | $539,563 | $342,490 | 63.5% | $197,073 | 36.5% | 12 | 3 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | The Sheltering Sky | $274,942 | $202,244 | 73.6% | $72,698 | 26.4% | 38 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 17 | Hamlet | $205,479 | $124,955 | 60.8% | $80,524 | 39.2% | 5 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 18 | Come See the Paradise | $185,791 | $141,159 | 76% | $44,632 | 24% | 25 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 19 | Alice | $177,571 | $99,583 | 56.1% | $77,988 | 43.9% | 3 | 3 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 20 | Green Card | $157,299 | $92,523 | 58.8% | $64,776 | 41.2% | 2 | 3 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Almost an Angel | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| - | Havana | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
