| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Home Alone | $12,098,548 | $9,813,012 | 81.1% | $2,285,536 | 18.9% | 2,157 | 9 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Awakenings | $10,769,986 | $8,306,532 | 77.1% | $2,463,454 | 22.9% | 1,282 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Lionheart | $8,989,313 | $7,094,552 | 78.9% | $1,894,761 | 21.1% | 1,462 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Kindergarten Cop | $8,133,105 | $6,575,600 | 80.8% | $1,557,505 | 19.2% | 1,937 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Dances with Wolves | $7,234,933 | $5,586,412 | 77.2% | $1,648,521 | 22.8% | 1,285 | 10 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Godfather Part III | $5,681,603 | $4,315,158 | 76% | $1,366,445 | 24% | 1,922 | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Not Without My Daughter | $4,962,104 | $3,804,055 | 76.7% | $1,158,049 | 23.3% | 1,137 | 1 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 8 | Edward Scissorhands | $4,529,341 | $3,655,258 | 80.7% | $874,083 | 19.3% | 1,372 | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | Mermaids | $2,889,946 | $2,287,275 | 79.2% | $602,671 | 20.8% | 1,111 | 5 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Look Who's Talking Too | $2,866,544 | $2,366,800 | 82.6% | $499,744 | 17.4% | 1,552 | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Misery | $2,727,098 | $2,068,992 | 75.9% | $658,106 | 24.1% | 1,234 | 7 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | Three Men and a Little Lady | $2,430,453 | $1,937,609 | 79.7% | $492,844 | 20.3% | 1,286 | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Green Card | $2,135,276 | $1,537,294 | 72% | $597,982 | 28% | 149 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Russia House | $2,099,999 | $1,622,952 | 77.3% | $477,047 | 22.7% | 738 | 4 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 15 | Ghost | $1,345,172 | $1,016,724 | 75.6% | $328,448 | 24.4% | 754 | 27 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Warlock | $1,002,437 | $780,360 | 77.8% | $222,077 | 22.2% | 173 | 1 | Trimark Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | The Sheltering Sky | $502,204 | $364,241 | 72.5% | $137,963 | 27.5% | 95 | 5 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 18 | Hamlet | $182,877 | $113,339 | 62% | $69,538 | 38% | 5 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 19 | Alice | $145,253 | $86,543 | 59.6% | $58,710 | 40.4% | 3 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Hidden Agenda | - | - | - | - | - | 114 | 9 | Hemdale | - | false |
| - | The Bonfire of the Vanities | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Rookie | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Rescuers Down Under | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
