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Weekend at Bernie's
MEANRANK
61/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3903
- IMDb #3466
- Rotten Tomatoes #3452
- Metacritic #4173
- Letterboxd #3241
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3731
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3581
- Metacritic Audience #2421
- Criticker #3248
- Kinopoisk #1685
- Trakt #3013
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 32, highest is Google on 88. Critics average 42, everyone else 65.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two junior executives discover a financial discrepancy in their company and report it to their boss, Bernie. He invites them to his beach house for the weekend, but when they arrive, they find him dead. To enjoy the weekend, they pretend he is still alive, propping up his corpse and convincing everyone he's partying.
Details
- Director
- Ted Kotcheff
- Writer
- Robert Klane
- Studio
- Gladden Entertainment
- Released
- 5 July 1989
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $6.5M
- Box office
- $30.2M
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