Weekend at Bernie's II (1993) on Netflix
Blamed for the $2 million Bernie Lomax embezzled, Larry Wilson and Richard Parker head for a safe deposit box in St. Thomas. A voodoo queen hired by mobsters wants Bernie's body.
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Plot summary
Larry Wilson and Richard Parker lose their jobs when the insurance company they work for decides they know where the $2 million their dead chief executive Bernie Lomax embezzled has gone, and investigator Arthur Hummel is given two weeks to prove it. Larry has found a key to a safe deposit box in St. Thomas, and he asks Richard to look up Bernie's account at the office. In the Virgin Islands, mobsters hire the voodoo queen Mobu, who sends Henry and Charles to fetch Bernie's body and raise him.
Cast
- Troy Byeras Claudia (as Troy Beyer)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Weekend at Bernie's II (1993)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The cast and crew, mainly from the Los Angeles area, were on location when the Los Angeles riots broke out in April 1992 and said in a St. Thomas interview that they were worried for their loved ones; around the same time the Bernie dummy was robbed of its painter's hat and $400 sunglasses.
- The film became a Seinfeld punchline: in the eighth-season episode "The Comeback", Kramer recommends it to Elaine as "a hilarious premise" instead of a staff pick, and she is so disappointed that she yells "Bernie's dead, you morons!" at the television.
- The film inspired a real dance craze in the early 2010s called "Movin' Like Bernie"; homemade films went viral, and Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice performed the dance after scoring a touchdown in a nationally televised January 2011 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
- The 2012 Oakland Athletics adapted "Movin' Like Bernie" into their celebration routines after Coco Crisp played the song for third baseman Brandon Inge in the clubhouse; players such as Josh Reddick performed the dance after a home run, big hit or walk-off victory.
- Rick and Morty parodied the premise in the episode "Rixty Minutes", where in an alternate universe Jerry Smith has written and directed a film called Last Will and Testimeow: Weekend at Dead Cat Lady's House II, about cats attempting to act as their elderly owner after she dies in her sleep.
