2012 1h 39m Richard Linklater

Bernie

Name: Bernie
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Released: 2012
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, Brady Coleman

★ 6.8 IMDb

Comedy Crime Drama

In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.

Writers Richard Linklater, Skip Hollandsworth

Cast Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, Brady Coleman

DP Dick Pope

Music Graham Reynolds

Essays and Criticism

On this film

The People Speak: Richard Linklater’s Bernie by Adam Cook, Cinema Scope Richard Linklater and "Bernie" by David Hudson, MUBI Notebook

On Richard Linklater

Richard Linklater by Michael Koresky, Reverse Shot Open Spaces [THE NEWTON BOYS] by Jonathan Rosenbaum Richard Linklater (Contemporary Film Directors Series) by Daniel Cape, Screening the Past

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