The Life of David Gale

Titolo originale: The Life of David Gale
Regia: Alan Parker |
Anno: 2003
Origine: Germany | United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Thriller Crime
Tag: prison | journalist | death penalty | professor | texas | death row | interview | murder | reporter | intern | innocent | activist |
Cast: Kevin Spacey | Kate Winslet | Laura Linney | Rhona Mitra | Gabriel Mann | Matt Craven | Jim Beaver | Cleo King | Leon Rippy | Melissa McCarthy | Lee Ritchey | Brandy Little | Jesse De Luna | Vernon Grote | Larissa Wolcott | Sean Hennigan | Charles Sanders | Marco Perella | Michael Crabtree | Julio Cesar Cedillo | Christopher Meister | Cliff Stephens | James Huston | Chris Warner | Julia Lashae | Matthew Posey | Lynn Mathis | Robert Lott | Mark Voges | Katherine Willis | Amparo Moreno | Janis Kelly | Barbara Petricini-Buxton | Asia De Marcos | Amparo García | Kirk Sisco | Cassandra L. Small | Oliver Tull | George Haynes | Kathy Lamkin | Constance Jones | Cindy Waite | Kimberly Tortorice | Katie Lott | Noah Truesdale | Chuck Cureau | Mike Fontaine | Elizabeth Gast | Chris Drewy | Katina Potts | Katherine James | Cindy Michelle | Jennifer Dorsey | Maurice Moore | Brenda Sendejo | Rick Morrow | Julia Kay-Laskowski | Donald Braswell | Jack Gould | Jack Watkins | Gwyn Little | Patrick Fries | Pilar Ferreiro | Claudia Parker | Joan Gispert | Mark Richardson | Justin Lavender | David Dahl | Catenya McHenry | Brian Orr | Michelle Valen | Tanya Zieger | Nick Dawson | Steve Flanagin | Evelyn Lindsey | T.J. McFarland | Deborah Abbott | Stacy Lynn Austin | Jerry M. Barker | Richard R. Bartholomew | Keith Bright | Ryan Brooks | Pei-San Brown | Dian Childs | Starla Christian | Wade Couturiaux | Constance Dasse | Matthew J. Dunn | Ken Edwards | Nikki Folsom | Ryan Hancock | Garrett Hargrove | Peyton Hayslip | David Scott Heck | Reda Hicks | Robert H. Lambert | Gabriel R. Martinez | C.K. McFarland | Josh Meyer | Brent Mitchell | Cindy Palla | Roger Eduardo Palomino | Alan Parker | Paul A. Partain | Keith Poulson | Glen Powell Sr. | George Renteria | Nicole R. Roberts | Michael Schmid | Ryan Schneider | Robin Simmons | Melanie Stovall | Danny Trevino | Ryan Wickerham | Michele Williams | Christine Wolf | Willie Wright | Jeff Gibbs |

David Gale è un uomo di saldi principi, che per un atroce scherzo del destino, da padre devoto, amato professore, e stimato oppositore della pena capitale, finisce nel Braccio della Morte per lo stupro e l'assassinio di un'attivista sua collega...

Approfondimenti

Roger Ebert gave zero stars for this movie in his review, writing: "[Kevin Spacey] and [Alan Parker] [...] D
Constance Harraway was the first of three characters suffering from terminal cancer that Laura Linne [...] D
Alan Parker: briefly appears during the party scene at the beginning of the film - he is seen helpin [...] D
The diner scene on the morning after Bloom and Stemmons arrive in Texas was originally shot at a dif [...] D
The scene where Gale is drunk in downtown Austin (6th Street) was somewhat improvised and shot with [...] D
Final film directed by Alan Parker. D
Filming of a death penalty protest scene at the Texas State Capitol was briefly disrupted by the arr [...] D
Noah Truesdale (Jamie Gale) went on to play rugby at Reed College. D
Nicole Kidman was the original choice to play Bitsey, but she turned down the role. D
Alan Parker's two sons, Alexander Parker and Jake Parker, composed the incidental music for the film [...] D
Kevin Spacey was the third choice to play David Gale. George Clooney and Nicolas Cage both rejected [...] D
First screenplay written by Charles Randolph. D
Many of the protest scenes and scenes inside the penitentiary where filmed on location in Huntsville [...] D
The film cast includes two Oscar winners: Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet; and three Oscar nominees: L [...] D
Laura Linney said the scene in the kitchen where she's handcuffed naked was one of the roughest scen [...] D
At 1 hour 21 minutes Laura Linney's character is making a speech at a deathwatch rally and says, "he [...] D
The commercial and critical failure of this film effectively ended Alan Parker's career. Despite var [...] D
Matt Craven did his own driving for the chase scene. D

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Errori

When Constance is telling David he's on sabbatical, she says, "It was four to two," but her mouth is [...] D
When Bitsey found the tape in Dusty's house and put it on the VCR we see "Constance" hand-written on [...] D
At the beginning of the movie when the pickup truck swerves around the girl, the tire squealing soun [...] D
To qualify for a death sentence in Texas, the crime of murder on its own isn't sufficient. There nee [...] D
Near the end of the film, when the protesters are outside David Gale's execution, there is a clear s [...] D
When Bitsey Bloom was watching the tape in the motel room before she asks Zack to go re-create the c [...] D
Constance mentions Illinois' death penalty moratorium, which went into effect in 2000. However, she [...] D
Huntsville Texas is about four hours away from Austin Texas, yet Bitsy drives back and forth between [...] D
When David Gale is reading an email from his wife, the date reads: Tue. Oct. 8, 1994. However, 8 Oct [...] D
When Bitsey enters the prison for the first time, the sign reads in Spanish "Cierre la puerta fuerta [...] D
After Gale puts his son to bed he feeds his fish. Before he feeds them you can see food floating dow [...] D
When Zack and Bitsey are re-creating Constance's death, you can clearly see Zack bump the tripod-mou [...] D
David Gale and Bitsey Bloom are shown having conversations through a grill located at the bottom of [...] D
Characters complain about the length of the drive to Huntsville, yet drive to Austin without hesitat [...] D
Towards the end of the film, Sharon Gale, David's wife, receives the silver suitcase with the post c [...] D
When the kids are playing in the swimming pool full of mud, the sign on the entrance is supposed to [...] D
At the end when Kate Winslet receives the Fed Ex box she opens it easily from the end. Fed Ex boxes [...] D

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