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Weekend at Bernie's (1989)

★ 6.4 · 1,126 ratings on TMDB

Bernie may be dead, but he's still the life of the party!

Weekend at Bernie's poster★ 6.4

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.

DirectorTed Kotcheff
CastAndrew McCarthy, Catherine Mary Stewart, Catherine Parks, Don Calfa, Eloise DeJoria, Gregory Salata
GenresComedy, Crime
The emergence reading

Weekend at Bernie's keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing death, deception, wealth, mortality, comedy.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

First Blood (1982)dir. Ted KotcheffWake in Fright (1971)dir. Ted KotcheffWeekend at Bernie's II (1993)Andrew McCarthyFriday the 13th Part III (1982)Catherine ParksThe Return of the Living Dead (1985)Don CalfaThe Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)Andrew McCarthy