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.
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Richard Linklater's droll comedy stars Jack Black as an East Texas funeral director named Bernie Tiede, and it is surely one of the best performances of the year. Bernie is superb at his job: solicitous, gentle, tactful. When Marjorie Nugent's husband dies, he is the angel at her shoulder, creating the impression that no client has ever touched him quite so much as she. That's a triumph because Marjorie (Shirley MacLaine) is the most disliked woman in Carthage. Based on an almost unbelievable true story, balanced at a peculiar angle between pathos and satire. - Three and a half stars