| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | The Silence of the Lambs | $14,394,372 | $10,616,383 | 73.8% | $3,777,989 | 26.2% | 1,535 | 4 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 2 | The Doors | $12,073,320 | $9,151,800 | 75.8% | $2,921,520 | 24.2% | 840 | 1 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Sleeping with the Enemy | $10,350,632 | $8,133,995 | 78.6% | $2,216,637 | 21.4% | 1,516 | 4 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 4 | Dances with Wolves | $5,203,021 | $3,942,518 | 75.8% | $1,260,503 | 24.2% | 1,608 | 17 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | King Ralph | $5,160,210 | $4,353,670 | 84.4% | $806,540 | 15.6% | 1,646 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 6 | Home Alone | $5,129,113 | $4,221,896 | 82.3% | $907,217 | 17.7% | 1,670 | 16 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Shipwrecked | $4,578,626 | $3,871,766 | 84.6% | $706,860 | 15.4% | 1,386 | 1 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 8 | L.A. Story | $2,913,504 | $2,307,948 | 79.2% | $605,556 | 20.8% | 1,068 | 4 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 9 | Scenes from a Mall | $2,749,867 | $2,175,330 | 79.1% | $574,537 | 20.9% | 1,039 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | He Said, She Said | $2,685,918 | $2,097,740 | 78.1% | $588,178 | 21.9% | 908 | 2 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 11 | Awakenings | $1,762,071 | $1,352,249 | 76.7% | $409,822 | 23.3% | 925 | 11 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys | $1,730,534 | $1,361,700 | 78.7% | $368,834 | 21.3% | 850 | 1 | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | - | false |
| 13 | White Fang | $1,587,816 | $1,260,408 | 79.4% | $327,408 | 20.6% | 1,102 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | Green Card | $1,412,744 | $1,067,851 | 75.6% | $344,893 | 24.4% | 637 | 11 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | Kindergarten Cop | $1,386,595 | $1,117,935 | 80.6% | $268,660 | 19.4% | 718 | 11 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 16 | The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter | $1,320,709 | $1,111,102 | 84.1% | $209,607 | 15.9% | 1,032 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 17 | Closet Land | $16,336 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Ju Dou | $2,597 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | - | $822,372 | - | - | - | 240 | 15 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | Mind Games | - | - | - | - | - | - | 105 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | - | false |
| - | Nothing But Trouble | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
