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Weekend at Bernie's

Name: Weekend at Bernie's
Genre: Action/Adventure,Comedy
Released: 1989
Duration: 97 min
Cast: Andrew McCarthy, Catherine Mary Stewart, Jonathan Silverman, Terry Kiser, Don Calfa

1989 Action/Adventure | Comedy

64%

When two bumbling businessmen, Larry Wilson (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard Parker (Jonathan Silverman), alert their boss, Bernie Lomax (Terry Kiser), to an expensive discrepancy in the company books, he invites them to his home on the beach with the intent to have them murdered. However when they discover that their boss has been murdered prior to their arrival, they attempt to convince people that he is still alive to avoid suspicion for his death, leading to all kinds of wacky mishaps.~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

Director

Ted Kotcheff

Actors

Andrew McCarthy

Catherine Mary Stewart

Jonathan Silverman

Terry Kiser

Don Calfa

Part of: Weekend at Bernie's Collection

Weekend at Bernie's is a 1989 American black comedy film written by Robert Klane and directed by Ted Kotcheff. The film stars Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as young insurance corporation employees who discover their boss, Bernie, dead. Discovering Bernie has ordered their deaths to cover up his embezzlement, with orders to refrain from killing them if he is around, they attempt to convince people that Bernie is still alive. The film's commercial success spawned a 1993 sequel, Weekend at Bernie's II.