Weekend at Bernie's(Movie, 1989)

Name: Weekend at Bernie's
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 1989
Duration: T01:37:00
Rating: 3.2

PG-13

| 1h 37min | Genres: Comedy, Crime

Rating: 3.2/5 (with 430 votes)

Weekend at Bernie's is a 1989 American dark comedy film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Robert Klane, and starring Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart, and Terry Kiser. It tells the story of two young insurance corporation employees who discover that their boss Bernie is dead after arriving at his house in The Hamptons. While attempting to convince people that Bernie is still alive until they can leave to prevent them from being falsely suspected for causing his death, they discover that Bernie had ordered their assassinations to cover up his embezzlement. Weekend at Bernie's grossed $30 million on a $15 million budget. The film's success inspired a sequel titled Weekend at Bernie's II (1993). ()

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Available languages: English
Available subtitles: English
Duration: 1h 38min

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About Weekend at Bernie's

Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets killed 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.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: New York City (NYC), North Carolina

Plays in: New York

Made by: Gladden Entertainment, 20th Century Fox

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 21 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 07/05/1989

Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart, Terry Kiser, Ted Kotcheff, Don Calfa

Director: Ted Kotcheff

Producer: Victor Drai

Screenwriter: Robert Klane

Film Editor: Joan E. Chapman

Director of Photography: François Protat

Composer: Andy Summers

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Drie Dolle Dagen met een Dooie!"

"Bernie'de Haftasonu"

Keywords: female corpse, beach, house, boss, mission of murder, bad boss

Budget: 6,500,000 USD

Revenue: 30,218,387 USD (= 465%)

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