Cast: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine
Crew: Richard Linklater (Director), Dick Pope (Director of Photography), Graham Reynolds (Music Director)
Rating: U/A (India)
Genres: Crime, Comedy, Drama, Biography
Release Dates: 22 Jun 2012 (Iceland)
Did you know? As research for his role, Jack Black met with the real Bernie Tiede in Telford Unit State Prison. Shirley MacLaine also spoke with Tiede over the phone. Read More
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as Bernie Tiede
as Marjorie Nugent
as Scrappy Holmes
as Danny Buck
Direction
Director
Production
Camera and Electrical
Director of Photography
Casting
Casting Director
Film Type:
Feature
Language:
English
Colour Info:
Color
Frame Rate:
24 fps
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1 (Flat)
Stereoscopy:
No
Trivia:
This film is based on a 1998 Texas Monthly magazine article by Hollandsworth, "Midnight in the Garden of East Texas", that chronicles the 1996 murder of 80-year-old millionaire Marjorie Nugent in Carthage, Texas by her 39-year-old companion, Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede.
Bernie Tiede proved so highly regarded in Carthage that, in spite of Tiede's confession to the police, the district attorney was eventually forced to request a rare prosecutorial change of venue in order to get an impartial jury.
Actual residents of Carthage, Texas who knew the real Bernie Tiede and Marjorie Nugent appear in the film providing commentary on the events.
As research for his role, Jack Black met with the real Bernie Tiede in Telford Unit State Prison. Shirley MacLaine also spoke with Tiede over the phone.
Bernie Tiede proved so highly regarded in Carthage that, in spite of Tiede's confession to the police, the district attorney was eventually forced to request a rare prosecutorial change of venue in order to get an impartial jury.
Actual residents of Carthage, Texas who knew the real Bernie Tiede and Marjorie Nugent appear in the film providing commentary on the events.
As research for his role, Jack Black met with the real Bernie Tiede in Telford Unit State Prison. Shirley MacLaine also spoke with Tiede over the phone.
