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Weekend at Bernie's is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Ted Kotcheff released in USA on 5 july 1989 with Andrew McCarthy
Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
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Add to a movie listWeekend at Bernie's is a 1989 American black comedy film written by Robert Klane and directed by Ted Kotcheff. The film stars Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as young insurance corporation employees who discover their boss, Bernie, dead. Discovering Bernie has ordered their deaths to cover up his embezzlement, with orders to refrain from killing them if he is around, they attempt to convince people that Bernie is still alive.
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Larry Wilson (McCarthy) and Richard Parker (Silverman) are two low-level financial employees at an insurance corporation in New York City. While going over actuarial reports, Richard discovers mismatched payments between December 1987 and June 1988. Richard and Larry take their findings to the CEO, Bernie Lomax (Terry Kiser), who commends them for discovering insurance fraud and invites them to his Hamptons island beach house for the Labor Day weekend. Unbeknownst to Larry and Richard, Bernie is behind the fraud. Nervously meeting with his mob partners Vito and Marty, Bernie asks to have Larry and Richard killed and arrange it to look like a murder-suicide. However, after Bernie leaves, the gangsters decide Bernie has been attracting too much attention with his grabbiness as well as his fooling around with Vito's girlfriend, Tina, and order that he be killed instead.Actors
Andrew McCarthy
(Larry Wilson)
Jonathan Silverman
(Richard Parker)
Catherine Mary Stewart
(Gwen Saunders)
Terry Kiser
(Bernie Lomax)
Don Calfa
(Paulie, Vito's Hit Man)
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