Weekend at Bernie's
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.
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- Cast：
- Andrew McCarthy , Jonathan Silverman , Catherine Mary Stewart , Terry Kiser , Don Calfa , Catherine Parks , Eloise DeJoria
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Truly Dreadful Film
Absolutely the worst movie.
Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
If you're reading this, you've probably already seen it. This is one my favorite movies. A quintessential 80s comedy and one of the very best. Very fun and fast paced. Check it out!
*****SPOILER ALERT***** I tried to recreate this with my grandpa and now I'm in prison. They need to add a disclaimer that you shouldn't try this at home! Once I serve my 40-life sentence I'm going to sue the pants off of Bernie.
I do not know what is supposed to be entertaining about this garbage. Maybe in 1989 a movie farce like this was risqué , sexy and funny. It just goes to show how movies have moved on. There are pretty girls aplenty in nice swimwear and the usual crowd of eighties guys who look like porn stars. One of the main characters was obnoxious and the other boring. Yes, its funny pretending a corpse is alive, but not as the one and only joke all the way through the movie. Morons will howl at the Keystone Cops style capers, but they are not subtle or sophisticated. The movie was directed and edited well and the camera-work divine, but what a predictable yawn.
Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Terry Kiser, Catherine Mary Stewart and Don Calfa star in this 1989 comedy. Richard Parker (Silverman) and Larry Wilson (McCarthy) are 2 New York guys who discover false policies written for the insurance company they work for. They inform their boss, Bernie Lomax (Kiser) and he rewards them by inviting them to his island beach house for Labor Day weekend. It turns out Bernie is the one stealing from the company and decides to have them killed. Bernie is killed instead before Richard and Larry arrive. They soon discover that Bernie is dead, but try making him look alive where he's still the life of the party. Stewart (The Last Starfighter) plays Gwen, Richard's co-worker & love interest, Calfa (Return of the Living Dead) plays Paulie, a mob thug sent to kill Bernie and the film's director, Ted Kotcheff (First Blood) also makes an appearance as Richard's father. This is a good 80's comedy with a good cast & score I recommend.
