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Synopsis: A lonesome woman comes back from the dead to live the life she was too afraid to live.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Hiro Murai
 
IMDB:
7.0
Year:
2017
32 min
67 Views


members or friends

who would like to share

any special memories of Bernadette.

Uh, one... one of the things that I, uh,

really ad... admired

about her was that, uh,

she never stole.

That... that, uh... that I'm aware of.

Uh, s... so many of

these people, you know,

they... they feel like the big

faceless corporation owes me,

so I'll just take

whatever, but not Bernie.

That I know of.

Dollar here, dollar

there, next thing you know,

a place closes and nobody's working.

Bernie was a person who...

Yeah, I remember she once told me that

she thought of the

three of us as her kids.

So, al... although it might

seem like her life was lonely,

and, um...

I mean, for sure, the way

it ended, was... was, uh...

I mean, you're sittin' there,

you're just minding your own business,

and someone breaks in

and scares you so bad

that your h... heart stops,

I mean, that's... that's...

- It sucks so bad.

- It... it... but...

that doesn't change the

fact that she was loved.

So much.

And we're gonna find whoever did this,

and we're gonna make 'em pay,

no matter how long it takes.

No ma...

Lord, we thank you for the gift

that was Bernie.

We gotta come out here like every week.

Oh, I know I will.

What, like I won't?

She was so freakin' nice.

I'm sure. You swear at a grave?

Since when is freak a swear, chick?

Girls!

Bye, Bern.

To Bernie. A excellent lady.

I'd like to kill that

f*** that killed her.

How about we don't say f*** at lunch?

It's just a word, Ma.

Right? Like pluck is a word.

You don't mind if I say pluck, do you?

Pluck, pluck, pluck.

Well, sh*t's just a word, too,

but we don't say it at lunch.

This is supposed to be nice. For Bernie.

Uh, yeah.

Now you care.

What did you just say to me?

Guys, can we not, uh, do this right now?

The question in my mind is,

what are you kids gonna do now?

Because I consider this

whole thing a wake up call.

Meaning, it's time for you to

pull yourselves up by the

bootstraps like I done,

and get out of that dangerous

crap hole you're livin' at.

Gee whiz, it ain't that dangerous.

A lady gets killed and

it ain't that dangerous.

What's a bootstrap?

It's like a strap on a boot, you doof.

Jobs. Jobs! For both of you.

Blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah, bloo.

Let me tell you kids somethin'.

Somethin' about this country.

Anybody can do anything.

But first, you gotta try.

And you guys ain't.

You kids make squat,

and therefore you live

in a dangerous crap hole.

And what happens in

a dangerous crap hole?

Bad, tragic sh*t.

Look, it's the freakin' American way.

You start out in a dangerous crap hole,

and work hard so you

can some day move up to

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George Saunders

George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to the weekend magazine of The Guardian between 2006 and 2008.A professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1997. His first story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, was a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award. In 2006 Saunders received a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2006 he won the World Fantasy Award for his short story "CommComm".His story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2007. In 2013, he won the PEN/Malamud Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Saunders's Tenth of December: Stories won the 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize. His novel Lincoln in the Bardo (Bloomsbury Publishing) won the 2017 Man Booker Prize. more…

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