Bernie

Skip Hollandsworth’s bizarre true tale of a much loved funeral director in Carthage, Texas who landed himself in a real unexpected spot of bother first appeared in article form in a 1997 edition of Texas Monthly. Bernie Tiede’s personality was as big as he was and the strange twisted small town story baffled middle America at the time. Genre hopper and all round nice guy Richard Linklater and Hollandsworth have adapted the article with a little help from the people who knew and loved Bernie into a strange but nearly perfect black comedy.