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Forum: Movies, Television, Books (Does anyone still read?) Topic: Bernie (2011) started by: TPRJones Posted by TPRJones on Feb. 01 2016,09:47
This is a weird movie by Richard Linklater. 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. 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). Most of the movie is told through interviews with the locals of the small town. 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. This movie is an interesting and completely accurate look into life in a small East Texas town. 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: QUOTE 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.
... Tiede currently resides in Austin, Texas, in filmmaker Richard Linklater's garage apartment, which was a condition of his release. Posted by Malcolm on Feb. 01 2016,10:13
Oh yeah. Saw this a month or so ago. Jack convinced me that he can actually act if he wants to.
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