Andrew McCarthy possesses a smug, s**t-eating grin to rival that of fellow brat-packer Tom Cruise, but with a fraction of Cruise's charisma he has to be one of the most irritating actors of his generation. Quite how he became a star is a mystery to me. Still, in the farcical Weekend at Bernie's, he's in good company: co-star Jonathan Silverman is equally as obnoxious.Together, the pair play co-workers Larry and Richard, who, hoping to climb the corporate ladder, go to their boss, Bernie Lomax (Terry Kiser), with evidence of company embezzlement. Seemingly pleased with their discovery, Lomax invites the lads to his luxury house in the Hamptons for the weekend. What the duo don't realise is that it is Lomax who has been stealing the money and that he has arranged for Larry and Richard to be bumped off by his mob associates. However, in a turn of events, it is Lomax who is killed for fooling around with his Mafia partner's girlfriend. When Larry and Richard arrive at Bernie's house, they find their host dead, but must pretend that he is alive so that they can still enjoy their weekend.With the two lads clowning around with Bernie's body, the scene is set for lots of very dark humour, but the woeful script fails to do the premise justice, while the young leads are painfully unfunny, their slapstick routines utterly predictable and poorly executed. Director Ted Kotcheff wrings far too few laughs from Robert Klane's one-note script to make the film anything but an embarrassment for all involved.

Talking to a family friend about movies he was after.he mentioned to me a title that he had been meaning to pick up for his dad for ages.With having seen the film mentioned when a poll was held on IMDbs Classic Film board for the best movies of 1989,I decided that it was time to finally spend a weekend with Bernie.The plot:Spotting irregularities in payments that their insurance company are receiving, Larry Wilson & Richard Parker go to talk to company CEO Bernie Lomax. Praising them for spotting cash being stolen from the business,Lomax offers Wilson & Parker to join him at his seaside beach house for the weekend. Accepting the offer,the guys get set for a well-deserved break.Unknown to Wilson and Parker,Lomax is actually the person behind the irregularities.Wanting to keep things quiet,Lomax talks to gangsters Vito and Marty,and asks them to kill Wilson and Parker at his beach house.Unhappy with how Lomax has treated them,the gangsters decide to kill Lomax.Arriving on the island with dreams of sun,sea and girls,Parker & Wilson begin to think that they will have to change their plans,when they enter the beach house and discover Lomax's dead body.View on the film:Placing the boys in the middle of "The City" director Ted Kotcheff (who also has a very funny cameo) and cinematographer François Protat gives Lomax house and office a decadent appearance,with the endless sun and shining mirrors blinding Parker & Wilson from seeing any danger be reflected.Along with packing the screen with gorgeous bikini-clad girls,Kotcheff gives the title a sharp black Comedy edge,thanks to the wild slap-stick being threaded to Wilson and Parker's desperate attempt to make Lomax look "revived."Opening with the guys being down on their luck,the first half of the screenplay by Robert Klane hilariously show Wilson and Parker's desire to move up the corporate ladder,by constantly going back and forth over if they should report their "great" bosses death,or if they should continuing to pretend he is alive.As the guys take increasingly drastic measures to cover Lomax's murder,Klane struggles to keep the fresh atmosphere of the slap-stick drying up,as Parker and Wilson start to go round in circles that become increasingly worn out.Whilst he does look like a mannequin,the scenes of Bernie being thrown out of the building and falling flat on his face were actually done by a real stuntman-who broke some ribs during filming! Joined by a sassy Catherine Mary Stewart as Gwen Saunders, Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman give great performances as Wilson & Parker,with McCarthy laying charismatic laid-back charms on Wilson,which is counted by the biting his fingernails fear that Silverman grips Parker in,as they head off for a murderous weekend with Bernie.

I saw part of this movie and it was funny. Then about 10 minutes into the video the bad language started.The two stars are on the roof doing work that they are supposed to do in the office. The are pretending that they are on the beach and the scene is funny.The are sitting on beach chairs and one of them goes into a small kids pool filled with water as they discuss business.During their discussion Richard uses the word "Christ" in a offensive way. Then the word "god damn" is used.I won't listen to words that are used to offend my God. I did not watch the rest.Now I am watching Weekend at Bernie's 2, 1993 with the same people. The word "bitch" is used but I am going to watch it unless it is like the 1989 one that I stopped watching.

Larry Wilson (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard Parker (Jonathan Silverman) are best friends working under Bernie Lomax (Terry Kiser). They discover a serious discrepancy in payouts to life insurance by the company. They don't realize that it's Bernie who's been committing the fraud. Bernie asks the mob to kill the two clueless friends but he is killed instead. When Larry and Richard find Bernie dead in his beach house, they decide to keep the illusion of him being alive to keep the party going.It's a one joke movie, and it's not that funny of a joke. Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman have some fun carrying Bernie around. They work well together. They've got good chemistry. There are some chuckles but the joke wears thin.