Additional information for Bernie, which has a domestic theatrical release set for April 27, 2012. The film is being distributed by Millennium Films and has not yet been rated. Bernie has a total running time of 99 minutes.
PG-13
USA
NC-16
Singapore
M/12
Portugal
IIA
Hong Kong
12
Netherlands
15
South Korea
12A
Ireland
12A
UK
15
Sweden
12
Germany
G
Japan
99min
1min
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In small-town Texas, the local mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when he kills her, he goes to great lengths to create the illusion that she's alive.
When the soft-spoken, chubby-cheeked Bernhardt Tiede II arrived for his first day of work as the assistant director of the Hawthorne Funeral Home in the little rural town of Carthage, Texas, no one was sure what to think. The towns barber called him "peachy and sweet." Some men who spent their afternoons swapping stories at Leon Choate's combination barber-and-gunsmith shop just off the town square openly speculated that he might be a little light in the loafers."But it wasnt long before Bernie, who never had an unkind word to say about anyone, became one of Carthages most beloved residents. His greatest attribute, however, was his ability to create beautiful funerals for Carthages deceased. As one townsperson said, With Bernie doing your service, you just knew you were going to get to heaven.One afternoon Bernie organized the funeral for Rod Nugent, a rich Carthage oilman and chairman of Carthages bank. There, he met Marjorie Nugent, the towns domineering grande dame, despised by almost everyone in Carthage for her arrogance and rude behavior. Like he did with many of the towns widows, Bernie regularly visited Mrs. Nugent after the funeral. Soon, she began asking him to run errands for her, to take her to both lunch and dinner, and act as her escort on trips. Then, in August 1997, in a story that made headlines in newspapers around the country, Mrs. Nugent was found dead, shot four times in the back, and buried under some frozen foods in the large, rectangular freezer in her garage.What made the story of Mrs. Nugents murder so peculiar was that she had been dead for nine months before people noticed she wasnt around. (The truth was that no one really cared about looking for her because no one missed her, one resident said.) What made the story truly bizarre, however, was the announcement by police that Bernie not only had murdered Mrs. Nugent but had been using her money to give to people in need throughout Carthage. He even donated $100,000 in Mrs. Nugents name to build a new Sunday school building at the Methodist church. Almost immediately after his arrest, even after he confessed to killing her, Carthage citizens rallied around Bernie, going so far as to drive around the courthouse blowing their horns, and begging District Attorney Davidson not to prosecute their favorite assistant funeral home director.
Richard Linklater
Director(s)
Skip Hollandsworth
Skip Hollandsworth
Richard Linklater
Writer(s)
Michael Bassick
executive producer
William T. Conway
executive producer
John Paul DeJoria
executive producer
Donald Fox
executive producer (as Don Fox)
Jack Gilardi Jr.
executive producer
Liz Glotzer
producer
Alex Gudim
executive producer
Lissa Gudim
executive producer (as Lissa Collins-Guddim)
Ken Hirsh
executive producer
Rav Indran
associate producer (as Kannoo Ravindran)
Hardy Justice
co-producer
Todd J. Labarowski
associate producer (as Todd Labarowski)
Johnny Lin
executive producer
Richard Linklater
producer
Sean McEwen
associate producer
David McFadzean
producer
Kirsten McMurray
co-producer
Dete Meserve
producer
Duncan Montgomery
executive producer
Mark Mower
co-producer
Darby Parker
executive producer
Judd Payne
producer
Celine Rattray
producer
Tiller Russell
associate producer
Jack Selby
executive producer (as Jack R. Selby)
Martin Shafer
producer
Ginger Sledge
producer
John Sloss
executive producer
Shane Stanger
associate producer
Matt Williams
producer
Producer(s)
Graham Reynolds
Composer(s)
Bernie Tiede
Jack Black
Marjorie Nugent
Shirley MacLaine
Danny Buck
Matthew McConaughey
Scrappy Holmes
Brady Coleman
Lloyd Hornbuckle
Richard Robichaux
Don Leggett
Rick Dial
Sheriff Huckabee
Brandon Smith
Rev. Woodard
Larry Jack Dotson
Molly
Merrilee McCommas
Carl
Mathew Greer
Townsperson
Marjorie Dome
Townsperson
Tim Cariker
Townsperson
Fern Luker
Townsperson
Jack Payne
Townsperson (as Sonny Davis)
Sonny Carl Davis
Townsperson
Chris Humphrey
Townsperson
Ann Reeves
Townsperson
Kay Epperson
Townsperson
Ira Bounds
Townsperson
James Baker
Townsperson
Kay McConaughey
Townsperson
Kristi Youngblood
Townsperson
Kenny Brevard
Townsperson
Margaret Bowman
Townsperson
Mollie Fuller
Townsperson
Tanja Givens
Townsperson
Glenda Jones
Townsperson
Travis Blevins
Townsperson
Sylvia Froman
Townsperson
Martha Long
Townsperson
Jo Perkins
Townsperson
Reba Tarjick
Townsperson
Dale Dudley
Townsperson
James Wilson
Townsperson
Teresa Edwards
Townsperson
Billy Vaticalos
Townsperson
Rob Anthony
Larry Brumley (as Tommy Kendrick)
Tommy G. Kendrick
Townsperson
Pam McDonald
Townsperson
Kathy Gollmitzer
Bernie
No theatrical release dates have been decided.
Director(s)
Skip Hollandsworth
Richard Linklater
Writer(s)
executive producer
William T. Conway
executive producer
John Paul DeJoria
executive producer
Donald Fox
executive producer (as Don Fox)
Jack Gilardi Jr.
executive producer
Liz Glotzer
producer
Alex Gudim
executive producer
Lissa Gudim
executive producer (as Lissa Collins-Guddim)
Ken Hirsh
executive producer
Rav Indran
associate producer (as Kannoo Ravindran)
Hardy Justice
co-producer
Todd J. Labarowski
associate producer (as Todd Labarowski)
Johnny Lin
executive producer
Richard Linklater
producer
Sean McEwen
associate producer
David McFadzean
producer
Kirsten McMurray
co-producer
Dete Meserve
producer
Duncan Montgomery
executive producer
Mark Mower
co-producer
Darby Parker
executive producer
Judd Payne
producer
Celine Rattray
producer
Tiller Russell
associate producer
Jack Selby
executive producer (as Jack R. Selby)
Martin Shafer
producer
Ginger Sledge
producer
John Sloss
executive producer
Shane Stanger
associate producer
Matt Williams
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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