Bernie Page #10

Synopsis: We meet Bernie Tiede (1958- ), a chubby undertaker, who takes pride in his work. He's a Gospel-singing tenor. In a series of interviews with townspeople, mixed with flashbacks, we follow Bernie: he arrives in Carthage, Texas (pop. 7,000), where old ladies adore him; he befriends a wealthy, mean-spirited widow named Marjorie Nugent; they become companions in both daily routines and expensive vacations. Among those interviewed, only her stockbroker and Danny Buck, the local district attorney, are unsympathetic toward the sunny, sometimes saccharine Bernie. Marjorie changes from sour and alone to happy with Bernie; then she gets possessive. What will sweet Bernie do?
Director(s): Richard Linklater
Production: Millenium Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 10 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
75
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
PG-13
Year:
2011
104 min
$5,900,000
Website
1,667 Views


I don`t care what he did.

Yes, I do care.

It was wrong.

But I believed that if Bernie

were truly sorry for what he did,

and would ask God`s forgiveness,

God would forgive him.

And after all, that`s

all that really matters.

I will miss him.

AII of us will.

I`II never believe

till the day God calls me home

that Bernie Tiede killed Mrs. Nugent.

And..and that`s just the way I feel.

And my husband told me,

``Daisy, when you go up there,

``you don`t change your mind

if you see some of those people

``standing out there in the

courthouse that you Iove,

``that`s your friends too.``

I said, ``Hey, I don`t think

Jesus could change my mind.``

That`s just the way I feel from day one.

And I will always feel that way.

Bernie was a good man.

Bernie had a great heart.

We need more Bernies in this world.

Murderers come along once

in a blue moon over here

and typically, they`re family related,

I mean, it`s just how it works out,

we don`t have strange killings,

it`s just some family member

got upset with the other

and shot him, killed him dead,

and they know they gonna go

to penitentiary for a while.

Now we even have Iess murder trials

`cause most of `em plead out.

So this thing becomes a media circus,

we got people coming in from

all across the United States.

OId Danny Buck, we caught

him with a stiff neck,

he..he got kind of stiff neck,

kinda get your neck a Iittle stiff,

he got a stiff neck, he

was Iike a pig in sh*t

when all this was going up.

Talking about what

wine to drink with fish,

I mean, those people drink

warm beer with fried mudcat

and he`s trying to say..

I took one Iook at the

jury and I said, Uh-oh.

Scrappy, you ain`t gonna do it, buddy.

I mean, you ain`t gonna do it.

You don`t have enough equipment to bring

these people outta their

dang hovels over there.

Jesus, he`s my daddy, he`s my cousin.

It`s Iike, some of them people

shouldn`t be allowed out of the county

and we took the whole damn

trial over there, you know?

What are they asking

for? I don`t get it.

I don`t get the Iegal system.

? He put her in the freezer ?

? And pulled down the Iid ?

? Didn`t even move it ?

? Just made sure It was plugged in ?

? He gave a Iot of parties ?

? Kept her packed on ice ?

? No one suspected anything ?

? `Cause Bernie Was so nice ?

? Oh, Bernie, oh, Bernie, ?

? What have you done ?

? You killed poor Mrs. Nugent ?

? You never even ran ?

? Oh, Bernie, Oh, Bernie ?

? What have you done ?

? You killed poor Mrs. Nugent ?

? You never even run ?

? After all those months ?

? No one had seen her face ?

? The Iocal Iaw decided ?

? They should Search the place ?

? And when the search That ended ?

? To everyone`s surprise ?

? They found her Shot and frozen ?

? As Bernie took her Iife ?

? Oh, Bernie, Oh, Bernie ?

? What have you done ?

? You killed poor Mrs. Nugent ?

? You never even run ?

? Oh, Bernie, Oh, Bernie ?

? What have you done ?

? You killed poor Mrs. Nugent ?

? And never even run ?

? You killed poor Mrs. Nugent ?

? And you Never even run ??

I ran out of air on that one.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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