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      Weekend at Bernie's

      1989, Comedy, 1h 37m

      26 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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      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, Bruce McNall

      • Writer: Robert Klane

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      • Box Office (Gross USA): $29.4M

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      • Production Co: Gladden Entertainment

      • Sound Mix: Surround

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