Weekend at Bernie's
Bernie may be dead, but he's still the life of the party!
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.
- Director
- Ted Kotcheff
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Humour
- Worldwide
- $30M
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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.
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Box Office & Release
Weekend at Bernie's returned 4.6× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $7M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $30M
- Release date
- Jul 5, 1989
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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