Weekend at Bernie's

Weekend at Bernie's is a grotesque and silly farce that is pretty far out but nevertheless works quite well. The thin story is about two young desk slaves, Larry and Richard, who discover fraud in the accounts to the tune of many millions. When they reveal their findings to the company boss Bernie Lomax, he invites them as a reward to his gorgeous waterfront villa. The guys immediately dream of meteoric careers, but what they don't know is that Lomax himself committed the accounting fraud. He orders the two snoops murdered, but before it gets that far, he is himself silenced by his "business associates", who feel that Lomax has become too much of a liability.

Larry and Richard naturally find the body, but they dare not report the crime for several more or less valid reasons, and, implausibly enough, they have no great trouble making Lomax look alive. On the other hand, they have plenty of other problems. The comedy's very premise is rather morbid, and the whole plot is, indeed, rather daft. I daren't even think what the sequel is like!