| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Sleeping with the Enemy | $18,305,647 | $13,777,943 | 75.3% | $4,527,704 | 24.7% | 1,406 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 2 | L.A. Story | $8,617,459 | $6,616,915 | 76.8% | $2,000,544 | 23.2% | 1,091 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Home Alone | $7,603,382 | $6,001,085 | 78.9% | $1,602,297 | 21.1% | 1,986 | 13 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter | $5,874,663 | $4,912,124 | 83.6% | $962,539 | 16.4% | 1,188 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 5 | Dances with Wolves | $5,533,238 | $3,905,835 | 70.6% | $1,627,403 | 29.4% | 1,548 | 14 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Awakenings | $3,721,904 | $2,830,551 | 76% | $891,353 | 24% | 1,318 | 8 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | White Fang | $3,512,144 | $2,715,120 | 77.3% | $797,024 | 22.7% | 1,259 | 4 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | Once Around | $3,288,130 | $2,569,620 | 78.2% | $718,510 | 21.8% | 730 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Green Card | $3,141,481 | $2,391,658 | 76.1% | $749,823 | 23.9% | 718 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | Kindergarten Cop | $3,050,920 | $2,437,825 | 79.9% | $613,095 | 20.1% | 1,475 | 8 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Hamlet | $2,545,062 | $1,812,050 | 71.2% | $733,012 | 28.8% | 624 | 8 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 12 | The Grifters | $1,546,898 | $1,291,290 | 83.5% | $255,608 | 16.5% | 540 | 10 | Miramax | - | false |
| 13 | The Silence of the Lambs | $1,412,862 | - | - | - | - | 1,497 | 1 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Edward Scissorhands | $1,221,808 | $923,514 | 75.6% | $298,294 | 24.4% | 784 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 15 | The Godfather Part III | $1,210,008 | $900,595 | 74.4% | $309,413 | 25.6% | 602 | 8 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | Warlock | $1,057,893 | $823,801 | 77.9% | $234,092 | 22.1% | 261 | 5 | Trimark Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | Ghost | $709,867 | $520,145 | 73.3% | $189,722 | 26.7% | 461 | 31 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | $33,818 | $24,004 | 71% | $9,814 | 29% | 2 | 1 | Cinecom Pictures | - | false |
| - | Goodfellas | - | $44,283 | - | - | - | 22 | 22 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Not Without My Daughter | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Meet the Applegates | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | Triton Pictures | - | false |
| - | Book of Love | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Popcorn | - | $736,505 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Studio Three Film Corporation | - | false |
| - | Mermaids | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Look Who's Talking Too | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| - | Queens Logic | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| - | Run | - | $882,516 | - | - | - | - | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Alice | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| - | Lionheart | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Misery | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Lawrence of Arabia 1989 Re-release | - | - | - | - | - | - | 106 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| - | Flight of the Intruder | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
