It says it's based on a true story, and it seems like I saw the same thing on an episode of City Confidential.
Bernie starts out seeming like an exceptionally smarmy, vaguely effeminate funeral director. But as it progresses, it seems he was quite sincere. A very nice man who befriended an elderly widow who nobody liked. People had excellent reason to dislike her, and if Bernie hadn't been such a nice guy, he would have walked away from her. But, instead, he stayed around until she drove him off the deep end.
The movie seemed like a wholesome antidote to all the lurid murder documentaries they have on TV.
I'm as much against murder as the next guy, of course, but there is such a thing as voluntary manslaughter.
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