The Life of David Gale (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 152 Fresh: 30 Rotten:122 Average Rating: 4.2/10
Consensus:
Instead of offering a convincing argument against the death penalty, this implausible, convoluted thriller pounds the viewer over the head with its message.
Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins
Theatrical Release: Feb 21, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $19,593,740
Synopsis: Gale (Kevin Spacey) is a Texas professor and anti-death penalty activist who, ironically enough, winds up on death row for the rape and murder of a colleague. Kate Winslet plays Bitsey Bloom, the brave journalist who sets out to tell to his story. In the days leading up to his execution, Gale... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney, Kate Winslet, Gabriel Mann, Leon Rippy
Director: Alan Parker
Screenwriter: Charles Randolph
Producer: Nicolas Cage, Alan Parker, Moritz Borman, Guy East
Composer: Alex Parker, Jake Parker
Screenwriter: Charles Randolph
Producer: Nicolas Cage, Alan Parker, Moritz Borman, Guy East
Composer: Alex Parker, Jake Parker
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09/26/05
The filmmakers work so hard to bewilder and to preach that they give us no opportunity to think clearly about the serious life-and-death issues that the film claims to address.
01/15/05
Como suspense, o filme não desaponta. Porém, a ambiguidade moral de seus ‘heróis’ acaba por transmitir uma mensagem oposta àquela que o filme pretende defender.
06/04/04
... [Alan] Parker lures you into the theater, but then you sit down and all he has waiting for you is a whoopee cushion.
01/06/04
In arguing that calmly and deliberately taking a life can never be justified... it ends up arguing just the opposite. It’s bad drama and worse politics.
01/06/04
In spite of my own feelings about the death penalty issue, I felt an overwhelming urge to strap this movie to a table and administer some punishment myself.
12/05/03
The film is so expertly crafted that it becomes an effective thriller. It is not, however, an indictment of the death penalty.
08/01/03
It isn't long before we yearn to see David Gale as the poster-boy for deserved capital punishment.
07/16/03
LThe Life of David Gale goes quietly into that good night during the doldrums of February, when studios discard their noble failures. . .
06/05/03
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05/30/03
. When all is said and done, The Life of David Gale is thus only worth about $8.50 on a cheap Tuesday. .
05/18/03
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