Bernie PG-13
A story so unbelievable it must be true.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 21, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Alchemy / Millennium
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine & Matthew McConaughey | |
Performer: | Brady Coleman & Richard Robichaux | |
Directed by | Richard Linklater | |
Edited by | Sandra Adair | |
Screenwriting by | Richard Linklater & Skip Hollandsworth | |
Composition by | Graham Reynolds | |
Director of Photography: | Dick Pope |
Entertainment Reviews:
Showing rare nuance as Bernie Tiede...Black cannily re-purposes his attention-seeking unctuousness to match Bernie’s desire to be liked.
Total Film
Rating: 4/5 --
Linklater observes it all with an ironic smile on his face. But he's never patronising enough to sneer.
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London Evening Standard
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Black isn't the only one who surprises us in Bernie. Director Richard Linklater... has delivered a purely entertaining film.
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Washington Examiner
Rating: 7/10 --
This film certainly has something that most movies coming out of Hollywood lack: originality. Apparently, truth is stranger than fiction.
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Ladue News
4 stars out of 5 -- Linklater's FARGO, it's funny peculiar and funny ha ha, with Black a delight and Linklater in impressive control of superbly judged content and tone.
Empire
[A] liberating, sunlit, deceptively simple but extremely complex and fairly formidable film...
Film Comment
Jack Black is worth the price of admission in BERNIE....[It's] an opportunity for Black to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he's ever played before.
Hollywood Reporter
Product Description:
Director Richard Linklater teams with writer Skip Hollandsworth for this darkly comic docudrama detailing the unusual friendship between a likable Texas mortician and a wealthy but reviled widow, and the shocking crime that followed. Inspired by Hollandsworth's 1998 Texas Monthly article that first caught the attention of Linklater, Bernie takes place in Carthage, TX, where effeminate mortician Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) enjoys a reputation as a friendly and upstanding member of the community. Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), on the other hand, couldn't hold a lower position on the local social scale. Repressed and bitter, nasty Marjorie has isolated herself from her neighbors, and as a result has been essentially shunned in her small town. The moment Bernie shows Marjorie a shred of kindness, she clings to him tightly and refuses to let go. Meanwhile, as Marjorie becomes Bernie's sugar mama and the pair becomes inseparable, the local rumor mill begins to churn. Eventually, her intense jealousy becomes too much for Bernie to take. When the caustic widow's body is discovered stuffed in her own freezer, local District Attorney Buck Davidson (Matthew McConaughey) vows that justice will be served, but he finds it difficult to build a convincing case against Bernie as the locals rally to his defense.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 114,046
- UPC: 687797135292
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