Synopsis
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
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Cast
- Kevin SpaceyDavid Gale
- Kate WinsletBitsey Bloom
- Laura LinneyConstance Hallaway
- Rhona MitraBerlin
- Gabriel MannZack Stemmons
- Matt CravenDusty Wright
- Jim BeaverDuke Grover
- Cleo KingBarbara Kreuster
- Leon RippyBraxton Belyeu
- Melissa McCarthyNico the Goth Girl
Recommendations
- 50
Rolling Stone
A shock ending may be the best hope for this film, a convoluted mystery that thinks it's way smarter than it is. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
By the end, it reveals itself as too pat, too absurd and -- as a polemic against capital punishment -- philosophically self- defeating. - 50
Miami Herald
There's no real artistry to this: It's as though Parker has just seen "Seven" and suffered some sort of David Fincher flashback. - 50
USA Today
Soon, the audience feels its own sense of despair -- for a movie that might have worked but didn't. - 50
Variety
Punches the expected buttons without being entirely convincing. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
The film's greatest asset is Linney, whose prickly, finely calibrated performance as the doomed Harraway makes her loss resonate more powerfully than any of the point-counterpoint rhetoric. - 40
Film Threat
The film doesn't have anything but bad news for Spacey fans anxious for the actor to break a stinky streak. - 25
Boston Globe
Positively reeks of self-importance -- the jokey, ham-fisted, pseudo-socially relevant, punch-pulling kind. It reeks worse of acting -- the Jack-Lemmon-in-a-coma Kevin Spacey kind.
