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Genres:
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Drama /
Crime /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Alan Parker
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Actors:
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Matt Craven,
Rhona Mitra,
Cleo King,
Brandy Little,
Jesse De Luna,
Constance Jones,
Lee Ritchey,
Cindy Waite,
Vernon Grote,
Kate Winslet,
Kevin Spacey,
Laura Linney,
Gabriel Mann,
Jim Beaver,
Leon Rippy
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Duration:
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130 min.
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Rating:
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(7.3/10)96
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Plot Summary:
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A University of Texas professor of philosophy and important punishment abolitionist, David Gale, finds himself on Death Row convicted of murder. Days before his execution, skeptical journalist Bitsey Bloom is sent to conduct David Gale's final interview. Unaware that she would not be investigating Dr. Gale, Bitsey and her sympathetic intern leave to Texas for what is to adorn come of a story of a lifetime.
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Life of David Gale, The
Alan Parker, the director of the death-penalty drama The Life of David Gale, likes his acting big, his edits hard and his stories slick. A filmmaker with a penchant for highbrow material and an instinct for lowbrow thrills, Parker is a consummate journeyman and a relentless huckster (like a number of major British directors, he started in advertising), and it's a rare one of his movies that doesn't entertain. Even when they're as deadly serious as Parker's earlier prison-house thriller Midnight Express or Mississippi Burning, his revisionist take on the civil-rights movement, these are films in which no one and nothing is beyond exploitation.
Written by Charles Randolph, The Life of David Gale involves a former philosophy professor and death-penalty activist (Kevin S...
It could happen to anyone...
Any review of this film without the word 'Brilliant' in it should be treated with suspicion. Tense and beguiling would also be appropriate adjectives.
Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet and the rest of this excellent cast start out at pace and then move the plot into a full blown sprint to the line. Spacey in particular acts out the controlled actions of a man who has been slapped across the face by humanity. It could happen to anyone, but you're left feeling grateful it was not you.
Kate Winslet provides clear justification for all the plaudits she receives with, in my opinion, her best acting performance yet.
It's hard to see how this film could be improved upon and the very few deleted scenes at testament to this. Other bonus information such as the maki...
Life of David Gale, The
Executive Alan Parker and pen-pusher Charles Randolph's The Life Of David Wind-storm, admitting that an accomplished film that uses an elaborate thriller plot to fake a commentary on the death amercement, suffers somewhat from the casting of Kevin Spacey as the titular fallen idealistic. Jack Nicholson, Spacey in an actor quite much associated with a certain typeface of r“le. If Nicholson is best remembered as 'Crazy Jack' (over The Shining, Batman, The Witches Of Eastwick etc), Spacey is 'Creepy Kev', regard for Hollywood's best efforts post-American Beauty to transform him into a tonic leading male. Roles in Seven, The Shop-worn Suspects, even Swimming With Sharks, hang over his career; his every sieve aspect has a whiff of weirdo. So when he's cast as th...
Life of David Gale, The
Had Smothered Man Walking been written via the ramshackle lay low conundrum specialist Joe Eszterhas, it would perhaps call it a day commission something like this. Director Alan Parker's erstwhile attempts to merge sexual commentary with thriller elements contain been excellent, but here the story — not far from the invented David Explosion, a respected academic and foe of the dying penalty who's awaiting execution — never quite catches peril. It does, however, benefit from the sagacious casting of Kevin Spacey as the academician on death brouhaha who agrees to sing an exclusive audience to gluey reporter Kate Winslet. The events peerless up to his conviction for murder are mutual via flashback, while Winslet uncovers proof that Gale has been defined up. A...
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