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Weekend at Bernie's
Two young insurance corporation employees try to pretend that their murdered employer is alive by puppeteering his dead body, leading a hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.
1989 · Directed by Ted Kotcheff · 98 min · Comedy · Crime · 10 frames
Tagline
Bernie may be dead, but he's still the life of the party!
Crew
- Screenplay: Robert Klane
- Cinematography: François Protat
- Edited by: Joan E. Chapman
- Music: Andy Summers
- Production design: Peter Jamison
- Produced by: Victor Drai, Bruce McNall
Cast
- Andrew McCarthy as Larry Wilson
- Jonathan Silverman as Richard Parker
- Catherine Mary Stewart as Gwen Saunders
- Terry Kiser as Bernie Lomax
- Don Calfa as Paulie, Vito's Hit Man
- Catherine Parks as Tina, Vito's Girl
- Eloise DeJoria as Tawny
- Gregory Salata as Marty
- Louis Giambalvo as Vito
- Ted Kotcheff as Jack Parker
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Gladden Entertainment
- Budget: $6,500,000
- Box office: $30,218,387
- Themes: beach, boss, bad boss, mission of murder, house, male corpse, mischievous, hilarious, bewildered, cliché
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