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Bernie
Comedy, Crime, Drama
In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy deadpan true-crime absurdity, eccentric community portraits, and morally complicated stories told with affectionate humor.
- Tone
- darkly comic, satirical, warm
- Payoff
- amusement, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- small-town conformity, abusive control, social performance, crime, justice
- Setting
- 1990s, small-town Texas community and funeral home
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