Two young insurance corporation employees try to pretend that their murdered employer is alive by puppeteering his dead body, leading a hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.
Acting
Terry Kiser's corpse acting deserves an Oscar category
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI physical comedy — actual humans flinging an actual body around
Director
Ted Kotcheff
Andrew McCarthy
Larry Wilson
Jonathan Silverman
Richard Parker
Catherine Mary Stewart
Gwen Saunders
Terry Kiser
Bernie Lomax
Don Calfa
Paulie, Vito's Hit Man
Catherine Parks
Tina, Vito's Girl
Eloise DeJoria
Tawny
Gregory Salata
Marty
Louis Giambalvo
Vito
Ted Kotcheff
Jack Parker
Margaret Hall
Secretary
Mark Kenneth Smaltz
Security Officer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Terry Kiser reportedly spent weeks perfecting his 'loose neck' technique and could hold his breath for minutes during water scenes.
The film spawned a bizarre 1993 sequel where Bernie is somehow reanimated by voodoo, because 90s.
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