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February 27, 2013 Theater

"Oh, Is There a Movie Version of This?"

Weekend at Bernie's Transcends the Original

by Thomas Ross

SOME THINGS ARE SACRED. There are works of art that reach perfection—novels so novelistic, films so filmic, tapestries so... tapestral—that they are considered "unadaptable." Weekend at Bernie's is not one of those things. The 1989 film is about two friends—awkward Richard and…

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