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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.Product Identifiers
ProducerLiz Glotzer, Martin Shafer, David Mcfadzean, Ginger Sledge, Judd Payne, Matt Williams, Richard Linklater, Celine Rattray
EAN5050582946147
eBay Product ID (ePID)14048555315
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleBernie
ActorMatthew McConaughey, Shirley Maclaine, Jack Black, Brandon Smith
DirectorRichard Linklater
FormatDVD
LanguageEnglish
Release Year2013
FeaturesAmazing Grace\True Story to the Film Featurette\The Gossips\Deleted Scenes, Widescreen
Aspect Ratio1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen
GenreGeneral, Comedy
Run Time96 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate12A/12
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
ReviewsThe Guardian - Linklater depicts events with a total straight face: ballasted by lots of talking-head footage (some with the actual townspeople involved), the film scrupulously avoids taking any kind of moral position. In a frankly inspired casting coup, Linklater puts Jack Black in a moustache and suit as the oleaginous Tiede; and refuses to make any attempt at discerning his inner motives. Black's performance is a revelation: foregoing his usual repertoire of jiggling, tics and head-waggling craziness, Black ensures Tiede is a satirical creation of considerable substance. Really impressive., The Financial Times - Almost vaudeville in spirit, it delights in American social clichΘs and kinks.
Consumer AdviceContains one use of strong language
Additional InformationDirector 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 neighbours, 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 rumour 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.
Movie/TV TitleBernie
ComposerGraham Reynolds
Sound sourceDolby Digital
ScreenwriterSkip Hollandsworth, Richard Linklater
CinematographerDick Pope
EditorSandra Adair