Style: Comedy
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Starring: Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart, Terry Kiser
Working Time: 97 minutes
Synopsis: Junior analysts Larry and Rick (Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman) uncover monetary irregularities on the large Manhattan-based insurance coverage firm the place they work. Their boss Bernie Lomax (Terry Kiser), who’s secretly pilfering the cash, invitations the younger males to his Hamptons home for the weekend with intentions to kill them, however his Mafia associates homicide him as an alternative. On the Hamptons, Larry and Rick discover Bernie’s lifeless physique however faux that every one is properly, and proceed to get pleasure from a celebration weekend whereas Rick pursues a romance with intern Gwen (Catherine Mary Stewart).
What Works Properly: Terry Kiser delivers one of many all-time-best performances as a film corpse, and the few good laughs characteristic the lifeless Bernie’s inopportune appearances at awkward moments.
What Does Not Work As Properly: That is an interminable one-joke comedy largely consisting of a corpse being shuffled from right here to there and again once more, with satire too haughty an idea for the juvenile antics. Dropped at life (and loss of life) by systemic over-acting, the witless script runs out of steam shortly and is hopelessly depending on caricaturish behaviour and abject stupidity. The fabric leans closely on poor style and might be hilarious for pre-teen boys (though the gag involving unintended necrophilia could mercifully fly over their head), however for everybody else, that is one lengthy and misplaced weekend.
Key Quote:
Larry: What sort of a number invitations you to his home for the weekend and dies on you?
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