Excerpts from The Believer: Resurrector: Weekend at Bernie’s

Excerpts from The Believer: Resurrector: Weekend at Bernie’s

- -A rotating guest column in which writers reexamine critically unacclaimed works of art. - - -Weekend at Bernie’s is about being wealthy in America: babes, boats, fraud. According to my mother, Weekend at Bernie’s qualifies as a movie, not a film. In 1989, when the movie hit theaters, it flopped. The critic Roger Ebert said the twist wasn’t funny enough to carry the story forward. He hated it. But what he didn’t see, may he RIP, was that the o…