Year: 2011
Genre:
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Biography
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 6,8 (DINO Rating: 7)
Country: USA
Language:
Director: Richard Linklater
Writer: Skip Hollandsworth, Richard Linklater
Composer: Graham Reynolds
Producer: Michael Bassick, William T. Conway, John Paul DeJoria, Donald Fox, Jack Gilardi Jr., Liz Glotzer, Alex Gudim, Lissa Gudim, Ken Hirsh, Rav Indran, Hardy Justice, Todd J. Labarowski, Johnny Lin, Sean McEwen, David McFadzean, Kirsten McMurray, Dete Meserve, Duncan Montgomery, Mark Mower, Darby Parker, Judd Payne, Celine Rattray, Tiller Russell, Jack Selby, Martin Shafer, Ginger Sledge, John Sloss, Shane Stanger, Matt Williams, Richard Linklater
Actors: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, Brady Coleman, Richard Robichaux, Rick Dial, Brandon Smith, Larry Jack Dotson, Merrilee McCommas, Mathew Greer, Marjorie Dome, Tim Cariker, Fern Luker, Jack Payne, Sonny Carl Davis, Chris Humphrey, Ann Reeves, Kay Epperson, Ira Bounds, James Baker, Kay McConaughey, Kristi Youngblood, Kenny Brevard, Margaret Bowman, Mollie Fuller, Tanja Givens, Glenda Jones, Travis Blevins, Sylvia Froman, Martha Long, Jo Perkins, Reba Tarjick, Dale Dudley, James Wilson, Teresa Edwards, Billy Vaticalos, Rob Anthony, Tommy G. Kendrick, Pam McDonald, Kathy Gollmitzer, Cozette McNeely, Richard Andrew Jones, Charles Bailey, Suzi McLaughlin, Grant James, Juli Erickson, J.D. Young, Charlie m Stewart, Joe Stevens, Raquel Gavia, Amparo García, Toby Metcalf, Doug Moreland, Edward Ji, Jill Blackwood, David Blackwell, Gabriel Luna, Deana Newcomb, David Steakley, Peter Harrell Jr., Joe Leroy Reynolds, Christian Stokes, John Hornbuckle, Wray Crawford, Margaret Hoard, Charles Allen Eskew, Quita Culpepper, Mona Lee Fultz, Jerry Biggs, Robert Works, Chris Barfield, Taylor Bryant, Colin Bevis, Jacqui Bloom, Joshua Denning, Ellie Edwards, Alaina Flores, Jennifer Foster, Leslie Hethcox, Jordan Hill, Berkley Jones, Trevor McGinnis, Mika Odom, Chell Parkins, David Ponton, Gray Randolph, Rachel Hull-Ryde, Ian Saunders, Madelyn Shaffer, Larissa Slota, Daniel Rae Srivastava, Ellen Stader, Lara Wright, Betty Andrews, Marcia Bailey, Umpy Bechtol, Nita Bouldin, Nellie Hickerson, Jeanette Kloppe, Geraldine Miller, Sharon Rigsbee, Debbie Shaw, Flo Weiershausen, Gina Wooten, Gary Askins, Ben Bachelder, Meredith Beal, Stacey Bruck, Michelle Briscoe, Lesa Brooks, Gayla Bruce, Brenda Bunton, Kristi Copeland, Jeff Davis, Orion Gallagher, Kenneth C. Liverman, Linda Rudwick, Mary Stifflemire, Patty Allieri, Heath Allyn, Cheryl Bond Danks, Fred Bothwell, Steve Cauley, Gene Cervenka, Rebecca Chulew, Erik Collins, Franky Coronado, Randy Coy, Wendy Crouse, Garret Danks, Daniel B. Davis, Richard Dodwell, Eddy Fitzgerald, Valerie Frazee, June Griffin Garcia, Paul Heckmann, Connie Kennedy, Stephen C. Kerr, Robert H. Lambert, Rudi Lee, Floyd Lloyd, Kevin Machate, Jim Mangum, Patrick Martin Jr., James Leonardo Mayberry, Angela McClure, Timothy McKinney, Caroline McNeil, Joe Nelson, Earl Nottingham, Veronica Pierce, Skye Polchert, Mitchell Rad, Angelita Aronce Sorensen, Gary Teague, Wendy Tobias, Adrun Wilson, Heath Young, Daniel Zubiate
Description: We meet Bernie Tiede (1958- ), a chubby undertaker, who takes pride in his work. He's a Gospel-singing tenor. In a series of interviews with townspeople, mixed with flashbacks, we follow Bernie: he arrives in Carthage, Texas (pop. 7,000), where old ladies adore him; he befriends a wealthy, mean-spirited widow named Marjorie Nugent; they become companions in both daily routines and expensive vacations. Among those interviewed, only her stockbroker and Danny Buck, the local district attorney, are unsympathetic toward the sunny, sometimes saccharine Bernie. Marjorie changes from sour and alone to happy with Bernie; then she gets possessive. What will sweet Bernie do?
Comments: 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. — Jason Buchanan
Duration: 99 minutes (at 23.976 frames per second)
File path: Z:\05937. Bernie (2011)\Bernie (2011).avi
Filesize: 1437 MB
Video: XviD - resolution: 720x384
Audio:
Subtitles: English, Serbian, Croatian, Multi idx/sub