Weekend at Bernie's is a 1989 American black comedy film directed by Ted Kotcheff, written by Robert Klane, and starring Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart, and Terry Kiser.

It tells the story of two young insurance corporation employees who discover that their boss, Bernie, is dead after arriving at his house in The Hamptons.

He and Larry take their findings to the CEO, the wealthy and hedonistic Bernie Lomax, who commends them for discovering the insurance fraud and invites them to his beach house in The Hamptons for the Labor Day weekend.

Bernie arrives before the pair and plans the murders with hitman Paulie on the phone, unaware the conversation is being recorded on his answering machine.

To the pair's amazement, the guests are too busy partying to notice he is dead, with his dopey grin from the injection and sunglasses concealing his lifeless state.

The website's consensus reads, "Weekend at Bernie's wrings a surprising amount of laughs out of its corpse-driven slapstick premise, but one joke can only carry a film so far.

"[8] Roger Ebert echoed this sentiment, arguing that movies centered on dead bodies are rarely funny.

[13] The film's closing credits feature the song "Hot and Cold", performed by American singer Jermaine Stewart.

It was written by Andy Summers and Winston "Pipe" Matthews, and produced by Richard Rudolph and Michael Sembello.

[15][16] On January 24, 2014, director Ted Kotcheff and screenwriter Robert Klane filed a lawsuit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 20th Century Fox for breach of contract for profits they claimed were due from the film.