| Rank | LW | Release
| Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Change | Average | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor
| New This Week
| Estimated
|
|---|
| 1 | 2 | Rain Man | $17,907,176 | +7.4% | 1,254 | - | $14,280 | $46,013,319 | 3 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | false | false |
| 2 | 1 | Twins | $14,120,270 | -16.8% | 1,624 | +3 | $8,694 | $57,617,595 | 4 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 3 | 3 | The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! | $9,528,962 | -11.9% | 1,969 | - | $4,839 | $49,489,012 | 5 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 4 | 4 | Working Girl | $9,125,046 | -2.4% | 1,060 | +9 | $8,608 | $18,474,239 | 2 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 5 | 5 | Oliver & Company | $8,187,330 | -5.6% | 1,503 | - | $5,447 | $40,999,647 | 7 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 6 | 6 | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | $7,693,516 | -10.5% | 1,511 | +1 | $5,091 | $23,521,518 | 3 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 7 | 8 | Tequila Sunrise | $5,691,557 | +1.2% | 1,411 | - | $4,033 | $29,678,622 | 5 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 8 | 9 | The Land Before Time | $4,136,725 | -17.1% | 1,414 | +19 | $2,925 | $38,412,485 | 7 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
| 9 | 7 | Scrooged | $3,813,211 | -44% | 1,877 | -20 | $2,031 | $55,470,818 | 7 | Paramount Pictures | false | false |
| 10 | 10 | Hellbound: Hellraiser II | $3,197,144 | -34% | 1,187 | +7 | $2,693 | $8,038,981 | 2 | New World Pictures | false | false |
| 11 | 11 | My Stepmother Is an Alien | $2,061,175 | -27.5% | 1,121 | -27 | $1,838 | $9,030,656 | 4 | Columbia Pictures | false | false |
| 12 | 13 | Cocoon: The Return | $1,303,536 | -1.5% | 893 | -57 | $1,459 | $16,079,817 | 7 | Twentieth Century Fox | false | false |
| 13 | 14 | I'm Gonna Git You Sucka | $750,518 | -17.5% | 135 | - | $5,559 | $2,543,130 | 3 | United Artists | false | false |
| 14 | 12 | Ernest Saves Christmas | $737,900 | -48.9% | 970 | -320 | $760 | $27,815,734 | 8 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 15 | 16 | Mississippi Burning | $394,840 | +20.9% | 9 | - | $43,871 | $1,285,399 | 4 | Orion Pictures | false | false |
| 16 | 15 | Beaches | $366,018 | +5% | 7 | - | $52,288 | $714,692 | 2 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | false | false |
| 17 | 17 | Dangerous Liaisons | $359,658 | +58.2% | 8 | +5 | $44,957 | $586,948 | 2 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 18 | 18 | The Accidental Tourist | $268,658 | +57.9% | 5 | +2 | $53,731 | $438,834 | 2 | Warner Bros. | false | false |
| 19 | 19 | Talk Radio | $166,557 | +1.9% | 6 | - | $27,759 | $330,004 | 2 | Universal Pictures | false | false |
