What it is: A film based on a screenplay by a former philosophy professor, Charles Randolph, about a philosophy professor (Kevin Spacey) at the University of Texas at Austin, an ardent opponent of the ...

Things don't get much more black and white than Alan Parker's vision of Texas in "The Life of David Gale." The locals are twangy, the governor is an idiot and the death penalty is always, always wrong ...

Kevin Spacey is David Gayle, the Texas philosophy department chairman on Death Row for the rape and murder of Constance Harraway (Laura Linney), his esteemed Austin colleague. Is it merely a ...

If all the world’s a stage, then is there such a thing as lying, or is it just acting? Let’s ask KEVIN SPACEY, the Oscar winner who told London police he had been “mugged” in a park while walking his ...

The Life of David Gale appears to have been made as some kind of manifesto against the death penalty, but somewhere along the way, the Grisham-esque murder-mystery plot got so scrambled that, finally, ...

A new low for director Alan Parker, this trite mystery thriller does for capital punishment what his Mississippi Burning did for civil rights: with its muddled message, liberal piety, and slick ...

University of Texas professor, Dr. David Gale, an advocate for the abolishment of capital punishment, is falsly convicted of rape and murder of another activist. He suddenly finds himself on death row ...

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(R) 1/2 star There is perhaps no better indication that you are watching a lousy film than finding yourself halfway through and wishing that the protagonist would just die already and put you out of ...