Movie Information
Overall Rank: 11144
Average Rating: 2.3/4
# of Ratings: 140
Theatrical Release Date: 07/05/1989
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart, Terry Kiser, Don Calfa, Catherine Parks
Plot: Two corporate nobodies get invited to their boss' retreat but find him
dead when they arrive. They do everything they can to prove he's still
"alive" in order to extend their vacation.
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Rating of
1.5/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 11/20/2021
A couple funny moments but it's spread out far and thin.
Rating of
1/4
Unknown - wrote on 07/15/2013
'Weekend at Bernie's' is essentially a series of gags involving two guys parading a dead body around and convincing others that said body is still alive. The premise is okay. I just didn't find the majority of gags funny. I can get behind the goofy antics, but I can't believe that the people being fooled could be that immensely dense. Other scenes not involving the dead Bernie, like most of the beginning, are flat out boring.
Rating of
2/4
FSUNoles27TS - wrote on 03/12/2013
It's so bad, but so good. This is definitely a guilty pleasure movie for the ages.
Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2.5/4
He's dead people
Gabe - wrote on 08/25/2014
So here's the deal, this film is probably closer to 2 stars than 2.5, but I just couldn't put a film from this classic period of comedies with anything less. It's really one of the last raunchy comedies of that era to be released. This sort of film wouldn't come back again, in my opinion, until American Pie in 1999. The film makes absolutely no sense. I mean, nobody in their right mind would carry around a dead guy for a weekend. I mean, at the very least, wouldn't it start to stink? Throwing all reality aside, I do think this film does skewer 80's yuppie culture. The party at Bernie's scene, when everybody thinks he's just so drunk that he can't speak, instead of you know, dead, points to the complete lack of respect for anyone around them. Everyone at the party is just so …
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