| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Home Alone | $9,117,068 | $7,268,334 | 79.7% | $1,848,734 | 20.3% | 2,106 | 11 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | Awakenings | $6,435,604 | $4,885,543 | 75.9% | $1,550,061 | 24.1% | 1,325 | 6 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | White Fang | $5,984,168 | $4,762,521 | 79.6% | $1,221,647 | 20.4% | 1,167 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Dances with Wolves | $5,783,004 | $4,306,517 | 74.5% | $1,476,487 | 25.5% | 1,302 | 12 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Kindergarten Cop | $5,517,050 | $4,414,415 | 80% | $1,102,635 | 20% | 1,901 | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | The Grifters | $4,077,890 | $3,311,000 | 81.2% | $766,890 | 18.8% | 766 | 8 | Miramax | - | false |
| 7 | Green Card | $4,002,391 | $3,002,164 | 75% | $1,000,227 | 25% | 381 | 6 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Flight of the Intruder | $3,635,912 | $2,759,650 | 75.9% | $876,262 | 24.1% | 1,489 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Hamlet | $3,437,338 | $2,415,838 | 70.3% | $1,021,500 | 29.7% | 525 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 10 | Lionheart | $3,300,364 | $2,534,375 | 76.8% | $765,989 | 23.2% | 1,465 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Edward Scissorhands | $2,595,223 | $2,015,937 | 77.7% | $579,286 | 22.3% | 1,368 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 12 | The Godfather Part III | $2,462,341 | $1,792,120 | 72.8% | $670,221 | 27.2% | 1,104 | 6 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Not Without My Daughter | $2,393,169 | $1,753,420 | 73.3% | $639,749 | 26.7% | 1,054 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| 14 | Mermaids | $1,887,216 | $1,405,758 | 74.5% | $481,458 | 25.5% | 1,092 | 7 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Alice | $1,547,986 | $1,107,609 | 71.6% | $440,377 | 28.4% | 261 | 6 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Misery | $1,429,988 | $1,031,983 | 72.2% | $398,005 | 27.8% | 871 | 9 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Eve of Destruction | $1,410,210 | $1,038,323 | 73.6% | $371,887 | 26.4% | 987 | 2 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Look Who's Talking Too | $1,323,913 | $1,091,800 | 82.5% | $232,113 | 17.5% | 1,060 | 7 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 19 | Once Around | $769,234 | $544,102 | 70.7% | $225,132 | 29.3% | 52 | 2 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 20 | Warlock | $364,300 | $264,144 | 72.5% | $100,156 | 27.5% | 154 | 3 | Trimark Pictures | - | false |
| - | Vincent & Theo | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | Hemdale | - | false |
| - | Men of Respect | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Come See the Paradise | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| - | Three Men and a Little Lady | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | The Russia House | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Cadence | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
