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Weekend at Bernie's is a 1989 American motion picture comedy directed by Ted Kotcheff. It is a comedy starring Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as a couple of young insurance executives who discover their boss is deceased. Believing that they are responsible for his death and that a hitman won't kill them if Bernie is around, they attempt to convince people that he is still alive.
Larry Wilson (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard Parker (Jonathan Silverman) are two low-level employees at an insurance agency who uncover a $2 million fraud involving multiple life insurance policies that were issued after the death of the insured. Taking their findings to their boss Bernie Lomax (Terry Kiser), they are commended for discovering insurance fraud and invited to Bernie's Hampton Island beach house for the following long weekend.
Unbeknownst to Larry and Richard, Bernie is behind the fraud and nervously arranges with his mob partners to have them both killed that weekend and arrange it as a murder-suicide. The gangsters, however, double cross Bernie and change the plan to have Paulie (Don Calfa) murder Bernie at his beach house instead, as Bernie's reckless greed has made him a liability, in addition to the fact he is having an affair with the mob boss Vito's girlfriend, Tina (Catherine Parks). During the dinner Tina, slides her high heel shoe off and plays footsie with Bernie with her stockinged foot.
Larry and Richard arrive at the beach house, find their now dead boss and think he is meditating. While trying to liven him up, they discover a small bag of heroin in his jacket left as evidence by the killer to suggest that Bernie overdosed. At this point, guests start arriving for a floating party that passes through Bernie's house every weekend as he is immensely popular on the island. Larry and Richard immediately realize that the vast majority of people are too engrossed in their own partying to notice the host and even the few appearing to talk to Bernie in passing are too superficial and oblivious to think twice about his apparent lack of response between his eyes concealed behind dark sunglasses and a certain dopey grin (literally and figuratively) from the murderous OD: you've never looked so relaxed, someone tells him.
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