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film by Linklater [2011]

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In Richard Linklater: Before Sunset, Before Midnight, and Boyhood
…to his Texas roots with Bernie (2011), a black comedy based on the real-life murder of a wealthy widow (played by Shirley MacLaine) by her business manager, a former mortician (Black), in a small East Texas town. (In 2014, after a defense attorney who was inspired by the film secured…
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In Shirley MacLaine
She later starred in Bernie (2011), a dark comedy based on the true story of a popular funeral director who killed a wealthy widow, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013). In Wild Oats (2016) MacLaine was cast as a widow who, after mistakenly receiving a life insurance…
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