In Bernie, Jack Black plays a local mortician who murders his live-in companion after she won't stop nagging him. The movie is based on a true story. The film is based on a true story. In 1996, ...

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 ...

And I'm Melissa Block. In the truth is stranger than fiction category, we can include the true story behind the new movie, "Bernie," a dark comedy. It's a murder story based on what happened in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Bernie, Jack Black plays a small-town mortician who murders his live-in companion after she won't stop nagging him. The movie is based on a true story. This interview was originally broadcast on ...