FINALLY! "Bernie" is a movie worth watching

Bernie (9) got me back to the theater. Glad I went (for a change.)

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Shotgun Stories - Viewed 6/4/08

Rating: 7 out of 10

Starring: Michael Shannon, Douglas Ligon, Barlow Jacobs

Genre: Mature Audience, Drama
Timing: 1:30

Set in depressed rural Arkansas, this is the tale of a bloody feud between two sets of half brothers, whose father had abandoned the first brothers and moved on to raise another family. The first brothers attend the father's funeral in a truculent, disrespectful manner to start the tragic train of events. Movie held my attention to the end.
It had received so little hype that I was the only person in the theater at midday (I couldn't help recalling those crude jokes we used to make about those old men who would show up at the afternoon movies in raincoats). Editor's note - he is not one of those kind of guys; at least not yet.

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