This is a weird movie by Richard Linklater. Â It's the true story of Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede of Carthage, TX, and how he befriended and then murdered a rich old lady named Marjorie Nugent. Â Bernie is played by Jack Black and he plays the role completely straight (well, Bernie was a bit effeminate, so maybe straight isn't exactly the right word). Â Most of the movie is told through interviews with the locals of the small town. Â See, everyone in the town loved Bernie so even though he confessed everyone not related to Marjorie wanted to see him get away with it.
Carthage is just a little way down the road from Nacogdoches, where I grew up and spent most of my younger years. Â This movie is an interesting and completely accurate look into life in a small East Texas town. Â If you've any curiosity about what that might be like it's worth a watch.
EDIT: And here's an interesting tidbit about what happened after the movie came out:
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Tiede had been, until May 2014, serving a life sentence. However, District Attorney Danny Buck Davidson and a visiting Judge Diane DeVasto of Tyler, Texas, allowed him to be released from his life sentence that month on $10,000 bail, after the appeals attorney for the case alleged that Tiede had been sexually assaulted as a child and that Tiede shot Nugent while in a brief dissociative episode brought on by his abusive relationship with her.
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Tiede currently resides in Austin, Texas, in filmmaker Richard Linklater's garage apartment, which was a condition of his release.
Edited by TPRJones on Feb. 01 2016,09:53
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