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Weekend At Bernies

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1990

97 minutes (1 hrs 37 mins)

Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

Ted Kotcheff

Starring

Andrew McCarthy · Jonathan Silverman · Catherine Mary Stewart · Terry Kiser · Don Calfa · Catherine Parks

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release: 5th July 1989

Box Office Quickview

UK box office

Debut box office: 16th Mar '90
Debut position: 8
Highest position: 5
Debut gross: £203.6 Thousand
Total chart weeks: 5

US box office

Box Office debut: 14th Jul '89
Debut position: 9
Highest position: 9
Debut gross: $3.7 Million
Total chart weeks: 3

Chart position history

UK box office

16 Mar, 1990
8

23 Mar, 1990
5

30 Mar, 1990
6

6 Apr, 1990
8

13 Apr, 1990
10

US box office

14 Jul, 1989
9

21 Jul, 1989
10

28 Jul, 1989
12

Global box office

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Certificates

US
PG-13

Total grosses

UK total gross
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£680.5 Thousand

US total gross
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$21.6 Million

Global total gross
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25thframe.co.uk stats

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Last viewed:
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News from around the web

Ted Kotcheff, director of First Blood, Weekend at Bernie’s and Wake in Fright, dies aged 94 The Guardian Sat, 12th April 2025

Excerpts from The Believer: Resurrector: Weekend at Bernie’s McSweeney’s Internet Tendency Fri, 25th July 2025

Ted Kotcheff, ‘First Blood’ and ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ Director, Dead at 94 Rolling Stone Fri, 11th April 2025

Ted Kotcheff, ‘First Blood’ and ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ director, dies at 94 Los Angeles Times Fri, 11th April 2025

Ted Kotcheff, Director of ‘First Blood’ and ‘Weekend at Bernie’s,’ Dies at 94 The Hollywood Reporter Fri, 11th April 2025

R.I.P. Ted Kotcheff, director of First Blood and Weekend At Bernie's AV Club Fri, 11th April 2025