Richard Linklater’s Bernie is the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film. It might be classified as a black comedy, for it deals with the murder of an 81-year-old woman in a fashion that is not ...

A jury on Friday sent a former East Texas mortician whose murder case inspired the movie "Bernie" back to prison. The Rusk County jury of 10 women and two men deliberated about 4 1/2 hours before ...

Here’s a story that’s stranger than fiction… Bernie Tiede, a murderer played by Jack Black a few years ago in the Richard Linklater film Bernie, has been released from prison. In 1996, Tiede confessed ...

Remember Bernie, the 2011 Richard Linklater film based on a true story about a lovable man in Carthage, Texas (played by Jack Black) who murdered his elderly benefactor and hid her body in a freezer ...

Based on a true story in the small town of Carthage, Texas, Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), was known as a friendly resident. He befriends a wealthy widow named Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine) and ...

Richard Linklater made Jack Black a star with "School of Rock," but since that breakthrough, both men have had trouble returning to those delirious heights. Now the duo has reunited for a much darker ...