Amazon.com: 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 behind 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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Rating: - Great Fun
This is a laugh out loud comedy about two idiots dragging around a corpse and getting deeper and deeper into trouble. One of the funniest movies ever written. The sequal Weekend at Bernies is almost as ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent to have a good time
If you want to live longer you have to laugh a lot. With this motion picture you will spend more than one hour laughing, garanteed.
Amazingly histerical sitations and very good actors too. ... Read More
Rating: - Weekend at Bernie's - a macabre, slapstick sort of thing, but very funny.
Weekend at Bernie's - a macabre, slapstick sort of thing, but very funny. My son loved it as a teenager, so what does that tell you? However, I laughed through it as well, and I'm a woman over 50. By the ... Read More
Rating: - You ask why I gave this movie 5 stars?
I gave this film 5 stars because it is one of those rare movies that made me laugh out loud! This is a very dark comedy about 2 idiots who find their boss dead and convince hundreds of gullible people that ... Read More
Rating: - Why don't we just pretend he didn't die? Just for a bit!
Oh, WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S. I remember watching this at a prepubescent age over and over, at a time when the mere sight of someone getting hit by something was funny (so I guess there's the EPIC MOVIE and the ... Read More
- Great Fun