Weekend at Bernie's is a 1989 American motion picture comedy directed by Ted Kotcheff. It is a black comedy starring Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as a couple of young insurance executives who discover their boss is deceased. Believing that they are responsible for his death and that a hitman won't kill them if Bernie is around, they attempt to convince people that he is still alive.
The film was quite profitable on home video and rental...
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Weekend at Bernie's is a 1989 American motion picture comedy directed by Ted Kotcheff. It is a black comedy starring Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as a couple of young insurance executives who discover their boss is deceased. Believing that they are responsible for his death and that a hitman won't kill them if Bernie is around, they attempt to convince people that he is still alive.
The film was quite profitable on home video and rental and spawned a sequel in 1993, Weekend at Bernie's II. Though the movie was not a box office hit, it "became a surprise hit ... made $70 million worldwide before tearing up the American home-video market."
Larry (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard (Jonathan Silverman) are two low-level employees at an insurance agency who uncover a $2 million fraud involving multiple life insurance payments that got paid before the supposed death of the insured. Taking their findings to their boss Bernie Lomax (Terry Kiser), Bernie commends them for discovering...
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