Cinematique: Bernie
Date: Mon, July 9th 2012 - Wed, July 11th 2012Additional Time Info: 7:30pm
External Link: Event Website
Location: Thalian Hall
Richard Linklater directs 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, 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. 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, as the locals rally to Bernie’s defense.
"Jack Black gives the performance of his career in the title role of Bernie...” – The New York Post
Rated PG-13. 1 hr. 44 min.