Weekend at Bernie’s1989

Director
Ted Kotcheff

Acters

Andrew McCarthy (Larry Wilson)
Jonathan Silverman (Richard Parker)
Catherine Mary Stewart (Gwen Saunders)
Terry Kiser (Bernie Lomax)
Don Calfa (Paulie, Vito's Hit Man)
Catherine Parks (Tina, Vito's Girl)

Bernie Lomax would be the perfect host, except for one small thing. He’s dead.
Two young men are trying to make their way in a corporation. One on charm, the other on hard work. When they go to the president, Bernie, with a serious financial error on a printout, he pretends to be thrilled and invites them to his beach house for the weekend. He actually plans on having them killed. Bernie is also fooling around with the girlfriend of his mafia partner. When the partner has Bernie killed, the boys end up having to pretend Bernie is still alive as the frustrated hit man tries time and time again to complete the job.
“’Bernie’s’ dives into a fast-stroking Blake Edwards mode of crazy slapstick and knock-down farce. Director Ted Kotcheff loads the sight gags with proper firepower, detonating Klane’s pleasingly sick setups with appropriate blast. Mainly ‘Bernie’s’ is good old, knock-down slapstick with just the right dose of cruelty thrown in.” – The Hollywood Reporter
“In ‘Bernie’s’, actor Terry Kiser spends two thirds of the movie playing a man who’s dead—and still manages to steal the show, thanks to cooperative co-stars, a skilled crew and Kotcheff’s wicked sense of humor. The essential appeal of ‘Bernie’s’ is that it’s a slapstick comedy, which never goes out of style.” – Blu-ray
“It is exuberantly, breathlessly played, as black farce must be. The two leads are likeably funny as they go through the most amazing contortions, while Robert Klane’s screenplay is often inventive and amusing.” – derekwinnert.com