Weekend at Bernie's

Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart

Weekend at Bernie's starts when two lowly clerks at an insurance agency uncover a $2 million fraud and report it to their boss, Bernie (Terry Kiser). Unfortunately for them, Bernie is the one b...( read more  read more... )ehind the fraud, and he invites them to his island beach house for the weekend, where he intends to have them killed by his mob contacts. Unfortunately for Bernie, the mob decides to rub him out instead--and thus begin the necrotic hijinks. The clerks, Richard (Jonathan Silverman) and Larry (Andrew McCarthy), arrive and discover Bernie's body. At first they panic and start to call the police, but when a party of islanders sweeps in, Richard and Larry also discover that the local residents are so self-absorbed they don't notice that Bernie is dead. So if our heroes can just convince everyone that Bernie is still alive for they weekend, they can have a splendid time. Unfortunately, they also convince the mob hitman, who keeps trying to take Bernie out. Weekend at Bernie's was made at the height of 1980s fashion and features many amusing outfits and hairstyles--often the styles are funnier than the dialogue, and the characters are tissue-paper thin. Still, there's no denying that the movie chugs along from bit to bit and never takes itself more seriously than it should. A cheerful, disposable piece of fluff. --Bret Fetzer

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PG-13, 101 min.

Directed by: Ted Kotcheff

Released: July 5, 1989

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DVD Released: December 15, 1999

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  • February 17, 2008
    probably the most realistically improbable movie i've ever seen...wouldn't that body start to FUCKING REEK?!...but that's not the point...it's funny.
  • February 3, 2008
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  • November 23, 2007
    great stuff, one of the great comedies i saw at least 10 times as a kid
  • September 29, 2007
    Hilarious, totally off the wall black comedy about two buddies (Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman) whose boss, Bernie, has been bumped off by gangsters but whose death goes unrecognized the entire weekend by his self-centered beach friends. Utterly tasteless, goofy, ridiculo... ...( read more )
  • August 9, 2007
    this is till funny to me, it lost some of it over the years, but it's still funny
  • July 3, 2009
    A classic comedy from the 80's. The film is basically about two guys who find their boss dead in his beach home. For some reason they decide to pretend he is alive so their weekend of fun is not ruined. This leads to many funny moments. The film is of course a comedy and not to b... ...( read more )

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