The life of David Gale

Resource Information

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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

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

Subject

• Texas -- Drama
• Journalism films
• Capital punishment -- Drama
• Political activists -- Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Prison films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Women journalists -- Drama
• Lethal injection (Execution) -- Texas -- Drama
• Judicial error -- Drama
• Dramatic films
• Fiction films
• Feature films
• Death row inmates -- Drama

Genre

• Feature films
• Dramatic films
• Journalism films
• Prison films
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Drama
• Fiction films

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

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

Intended audience

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

Language note

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

PerformerNote

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

Runtime

131

Technique

live action