Richard Linklater’s Bernie is the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film. It might be classified as a black comedy, for it deals with the murder of an 81-year-old woman in a fashion that is not ...

The true story of a gay funeral director and a bitchy millionaire. Richard Linklater’s Bernie tells the tale of Bernie Tiede, a thirtysomething funeral director in Carthage, Texas, whose boundless ...

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Richard Linklater made Jack Black a star with "School of Rock," but since that breakthrough, both men have had trouble returning to those delirious heights. Now the duo has reunited for a much darker ...

Based on a true story in the small town of Carthage, Texas, Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), was known as a friendly resident. He befriends a wealthy widow named Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine) and ...

Here’s a story that’s stranger than fiction… Bernie Tiede, a murderer played by Jack Black a few years ago in the Richard Linklater film Bernie, has been released from prison. In 1996, Tiede confessed ...

And I'm Melissa Block. In the truth is stranger than fiction category, we can include the true story behind the new movie, "Bernie," a dark comedy. It's a murder story based on what happened in the ...