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4 unusual facts about Weekend at Bernie's


Henry J. Bronchtein

Further credits as a first assistant director consist of A Perfect Murder, Addicted to Love, Weekend at Bernie's, It Could Happen to You, Guarding Tess, Striptease, Rookie of the Year, and Eddie and the Cruisers.

Manadel al-Jamadi

Others called him "Bernie", a reference to the movie Weekend at Bernie's in which a dead body is treated as if still alive.

Wake in Fright

His later films included The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1973), Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), First Blood (1982) and Weekend at Bernie's (1988).

Weekend at Bernie's

Weekend at Bernie's is a 1989 dark comedy film directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as a couple of young insurance corporation employees who discover their boss is deceased.


Catherine Parks

She is perhaps best known for her role in the 1982 horror movie Friday the 13th Part III as Vera Sanchez and in the 1989 comedy Weekend at Bernie's.

Nehlle Pe Dehlla

It also has influences of other contemporary movies such as Winners and Sinners, Weekend At Bernie's and Weekend at Bernie's II.


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