The life of David Gale

Resource Information

The work The life of David Gale represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The life of David Gale

Statement of responsibility

Universal Pictures and Intermedia Films present a Saturn Films/Dirty Hands production ; producers, Alan Parker, Nicolas Cage ; writer, Charles Randolph ; director, Alan Parker

Contributor

• Dirty Hands Productions
• Intermedia Films
• Saturn Films
• Universal Pictures (Firm)
• Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Beaver, Jim, 1950-
• Cage, Nicolas, 1965-
• Craven, Matt
• Hambling, Gerry
• Linney, Laura
• Mann, Gabriel
• McCarthy, Melissa, 1969-
• Mitra, Rhona, 1976-
• Parker, Alan, 1944-2020
• Parker, Alex, 1969-
• Parker, Jake
• Randolph, Charles
• Rippy, Leon
• Seresin, Michael
• Spacey, Kevin
• Winslet, Kate

Subject

• Capital punishment
• Capital punishment -- Drama
• Death row inmates
• Death row inmates -- Drama
• Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Journalism films
• Journalism films
• Judicial error
• Judicial error -- Drama
• Lethal injection (Execution)
• Lethal injection (Execution) -- Texas -- Drama
• Pena capital -- Tejas -- Teatro
• Periodistas -- Tejas -- Teatro
• Political activists
• Political activists -- Drama
• Prison films
• Prison films
• Suspense films
• Texas
• Texas -- Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Women journalists
• Women journalists -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Journalism films
• Prison films
• Suspense films
• Teatro
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

• A reporter is sent to chronicle the last days of an anti-death penalty activist now living on death row, after having been convicted of the murder of a fellow activist. The reporter grows to suspect he may have been framed, and sets out to verify her doubts
• David Gale era un miembro activo de Deathwatch, un grupo activista en contra de la pena de muerte. Constance era una activista compañera de Deathwatch. Cuando se encuentra a Constance violada y asesinada, Gale es condenado del crimen. Ahora Gale espera la ejecución, y con menos que una semana antes su cita con la inyección fatal, Gale consiente en decir su historia a Bitsy, una periodista presuntuosa de una revista de noticias mayor. Cuando ella discute los hechos del asesinato con Gale, se le ocurre que los detalles simplemente no suman. Pronto un desconocido misterioso empieza a pasarle disimuladamente a ella evidencia que sugiere que a Gale se han tendido una trampa

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Michael Seresin ; edited by Gerry Hambling ; music by Alex Parker, Jake Parker ; orchestrations by Jake Parker

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for violent images, nudity, language and sexuality

Language note

In English, dubbed French, or dubbed Spanish; with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish. Closed-captioned

LC call number

• PN1995.9.J6
• PN1997.2

LC item number

• L54 2003
• .L536 2003

PerformerNote

Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, Gabriel Mann, Matt Craven, Leon Rippy, Rhona Mitra, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Beaver

Runtime

131

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action