Weekend at Bernie’s (1989)
Storyline
Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe he's still alive. The killer wants to do his job so when he is informed that the stiff is still alive he's got to shoot him again, and again, and again.
Directors
Cast
George Cheung, Eloise DeJoria, Gregory Salata, Anthony Mannino, Andrew McCarthy, Bruce Paul Barbour, Stefanos Miltsakakis, Ted Kotcheff, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart, Terry Kiser, Don Calfa, Catherine Parks, Louis Giambalvo, Margaret Hall, Timothy Perez, Mark Kenneth Smaltz, Polly Segal, Robert L. Horen, Jason Woliner, Dan Cox, Steve Howard, Lorri Lindberg, Jack Hallett, John Bennes, Augustina Berlings, Mert Hatfield, Jack Canon, Nello Tare, Joyce Bowden, Dan Preston, Jean Liles, Lisa Sherrill Gannon, Rachel Lewis, Dan Wargo, Patricia Roseman, David Arey, Ronald Ross, Lou Criscuolo, Edwin Little Dean, Stephen Fischer, Cindy Foster Jones, Richard W. Boucher, Leslie Sternchak, Tina Diane King, Scooby Vincent
Trailer
Reviews
70
Mainly Bernie's is good old, knock-down slapstick with just the right dose of cruelty thrown in.
38
All cast members seem willing to make total fools of themselves for our delectation. A fine but futile gesture. The bad news is that even with such yeoman efforts, it's still impossible to drag one tired joke around for nearly two hours. Like Bernie, the movie ends up dead on its feet.
37
Weekend at Bernie's is an unfettered but uninspired one-joke movie.
25
Weekend at Bernie’s makes two mistakes: It gives us a joke that isn’t very funny, and it expects the joke to carry an entire movie.
20
What we have here is a film with no respect for the laws of nature, the laws of man, or the intelligence of the viewer.
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