Weekend at Bernie’s

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Poster for the movie "Weekend at Bernie's"
Poster for the movie "Weekend at Bernie's"

Weekend at Bernie's (1989)

PG-13 97 min - Comedy, Crime - 5 July 1989
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Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe he's still alive. The killer wants to do his job so when he is informed that the stiff is still alive he's got to shoot him again, and again, and again.

Director:  Ted Kotcheff
Writers:  Robert Klane
Stars:  Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart, Terry Kiser, Don Calfa, Catherine Parks, Eloise DeJoria, Gregory Salata, Louis Giambalvo, Ted Kotcheff, Margaret Hall, Timothy Perez, Mark Kenneth Smaltz, Anthony Mannino, Polly Segal, Robert L. Horen, Bruce Paul Barbour, Jason Woliner, Dan Cox, Steve Howard, Lorri Lindberg, Jack Hallett, John Bennes, Augustina Berlings, Mert Hatfield, Jack Canon, Nello Tare, Joyce Bowden, Stefanos Miltsakakis, Dan Preston, Jean Liles, Lisa Sherrill Gannon, Rachel Lewis, Dan Wargo, Patricia Roseman, David Arey, Ronald Ross, George Cheung, Lou Criscuolo, Edwin Little Dean, Stephen Fischer, Cindy Foster Jones, Richard W. Boucher, Leslie Sternchak, Tina Diane King, Scooby Vincent

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Storyline

Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe he's still alive. The killer wants to do his job so when he is informed that the stiff is still alive he's got to shoot him again, and again, and again.

Collections: Ted Kotcheff
Tagline: Bernie may be dead, but he's still the life of the party!
Genres: Comedy, Crime

Details

Official Website:  —
Country:   United States of America
Language:  English
Release Date:  5 July 1989

Box Office

Budget:  $6,500,000
Revenue:  $30,218,387

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Gladden Entertainment, 20th Century Fox

Technical Specs

Runtime:  1 h 37 min