| Rank | Release
| Weekly | Weekend | % of Week | Weekdays | % of Week | Theaters | Week | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | Out for Justice | $14,304,802 | $10,524,026 | 73.6% | $3,780,776 | 26.4% | 2,010 | 1 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 2 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze | $7,282,057 | $5,862,113 | 80.5% | $1,419,944 | 19.5% | 2,783 | 4 | New Line Cinema | - | false |
| 3 | The Silence of the Lambs | $5,510,892 | $4,146,846 | 75.2% | $1,364,046 | 24.8% | 1,635 | 10 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 4 | Dances with Wolves | $4,507,713 | $3,467,181 | 76.9% | $1,040,532 | 23.1% | 1,612 | 23 | Orion Pictures | - | false |
| 5 | Defending Your Life | $3,896,253 | $3,058,664 | 78.5% | $837,589 | 21.5% | 715 | 4 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 6 | The Marrying Man | $3,391,229 | $2,578,739 | 76% | $812,490 | 24% | 1,343 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | - | false |
| 7 | Sleeping with the Enemy | $3,148,258 | $2,366,517 | 75.2% | $781,741 | 24.8% | 1,443 | 10 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 8 | New Jack City | $2,800,173 | $2,056,730 | 73.4% | $743,443 | 26.6% | 865 | 6 | Warner Bros. | - | false |
| 9 | Home Alone | $2,375,393 | $1,835,299 | 77.3% | $540,094 | 22.7% | 1,465 | 22 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 10 | Class Action | $2,170,414 | $1,665,641 | 76.7% | $504,773 | 23.3% | 1,051 | 5 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 11 | Career Opportunities | $1,513,555 | $1,203,425 | 79.5% | $310,130 | 20.5% | 1,301 | 3 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 12 | The Five Heartbeats | $1,113,478 | $825,414 | 74.1% | $288,064 | 25.9% | 408 | 3 | Twentieth Century Fox | - | false |
| 13 | Kindergarten Cop | $743,365 | $609,700 | 82% | $133,665 | 18% | 469 | 17 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| 14 | The Object of Beauty | $286,186 | $208,119 | 72.7% | $78,067 | 27.3% | 18 | 1 | Avenue Pictures Productions | - | false |
| 15 | Impromptu | $76,720 | $51,176 | 66.7% | $25,544 | 33.3% | 3 | 1 | Hemdale | - | false |
| 16 | Daddy Nostalgia | $23,194 | $14,252 | 61.4% | $8,942 | 38.6% | 1 | 1 | Avenue Pictures Productions | - | false |
| - | The Hard Way | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | Universal Pictures | - | false |
| - | Iron & Silk | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | Miramax | - | false |
| - | The Nasty Girl | - | - | - | - | - | - | 25 | Miramax | - | false |
