| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze | $19,522,844 | $13,049,622 | 66.8% | $6,473,222 | 33.2% | 2,868 | 2 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 2 | The Silence of the Lambs | $8,326,256 | $5,780,994 | 69.4% | $2,545,262 | 30.6% | 1,616 | 8 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 3 | Dances with Wolves | $7,844,491 | $5,406,366 | 68.9% | $2,438,125 | 31.1% | 1,621 | 21 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Career Opportunities | $5,556,675 | $4,024,800 | 72.4% | $1,531,875 | 27.6% | 1,440 | 1 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | New Jack City | $5,461,360 | $3,717,454 | 68.1% | $1,743,906 | 31.9% | 905 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | Sleeping with the Enemy | $4,734,538 | $3,230,666 | 68.2% | $1,503,872 | 31.8% | 1,478 | 8 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 7 | Class Action | $4,229,578 | $3,043,522 | 72% | $1,186,056 | 28% | 1,132 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | Home Alone | $3,778,835 | $2,433,479 | 64.4% | $1,345,356 | 35.6% | 1,762 | 20 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 9 | The Hard Way | $2,878,075 | $2,061,150 | 71.6% | $816,925 | 28.4% | 1,510 | 4 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 10 | The Five Heartbeats | $2,395,376 | $1,630,689 | 68.1% | $764,687 | 31.9% | 862 | 1 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | The Doors | $2,214,900 | $1,500,750 | 67.8% | $714,150 | 32.2% | 1,035 | 5 | TriStar Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The Perfect Weapon | $2,028,219 | $1,390,545 | 68.6% | $637,674 | 31.4% | 1,082 | 3 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
| 13 | Guilty by Suspicion | $1,642,946 | $1,180,054 | 71.8% | $462,892 | 28.2% | 585 | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 14 | Kindergarten Cop | $1,187,825 | $748,960 | 63% | $438,865 | 37% | 552 | 15 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 15 | The Long Walk Home | $900,432 | $675,324 | 75% | $225,108 | 25% | 272 | 15 | Miramax | - | false |
| 16 | Awakenings | $869,644 | - | - | - | - | 506 | 15 | Columbia Pictures | - | false |
| 17 | The Unborn | $224,941 | $179,080 | 79.6% | $45,861 | 20.4% | 55 | 1 | Concorde Pictures | - | false |
| 18 | Defending Your Life | $149,417 | $91,809 | 61.4% | $57,608 | 38.6% | 3 | 2 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | The Field | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 | Avenue Pictures Productions | - | false |
| - | If Looks Could Kill | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| - | Ghost | - | - | - | - | - | - | 38 | Paramount Pictures | - | false |
