Weekend at Bernie's

1989, Comedy, 1h 37m

24 Reviews 50,000+ Ratings

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Weekend at Bernie's wrings a surprising amount of laughs out of its corpse-driven slapstick premise, but one joke can only carry a film so far. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

Fun-loving salesmen Richard (Jonathan Silverman) and Larry (Andrew McCarthy) are invited by their boss, Bernie (Terry Kiser), to stay the weekend at his posh beach house. Little do they know that Bernie is the perpetrator of a fraud they've uncovered and is arranging to have them killed. When the plan backfires and Bernie is killed instead, the buddies decide not to let a little death spoil their vacation. They pretend Bernie is still alive, leading to hijinks and corpse desecration galore.
  • Rating:
    PG-13
  • Genre:
    Comedy
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Ted Kotcheff
  • Producer:
    Victor Drai
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  • Box Office (Gross USA):
    $29.4M
  • Runtime:
  • Sound Mix:
    Surround

Cast & Crew

Andrew McCarthy
Larry Wilson
Jonathan Silverman
Richard Parker
Terry Kiser
Bernie Lomax
Catherine Mary Stewart
Gwen Saunders
Don Calfa
Paulie
Catherine Parks
Tina
Eloise DeJoria
Tawny
Gregory Salata
Marty
Louis Giambalvo
Vito
Ted Kotcheff
Jack Parker
Ted Kotcheff
Director
Victor Drai
Producer
Nancy Butz
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