Shot in the Heart R
He was worth more dead than he ever was alive... but not to me. I was Gary Gilmore's brother.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 21, 2012
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: HBO Archive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Giovanni Ribisi & Elias Koteas | |
Performer: | Amy Madigan, Sam Shepard, Eric Bogosian & Lee Tergesen | |
Directed by | Agnieszka Holland | |
Edited by | Ken Eluto | |
Screenwriting by | Frank Pugliese | |
Director of Photography: | Jacek Petrycki | |
Executive Production by | Tom Fontana & Barry Levinson |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Quite a morbid picture, but the performances save it
Moviehole
Rating: 4/4 --
Only a writer as talented as Mikal Gilmore could tell a story that punches you in the gut about every five seconds and yet leaves you hoping for more.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 4/5 --
A bleak, haunting movie.
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New York Times
Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa) directs this stunning cast in what is essentially one long therapeutic interrogation with evidentiary flashbacks -- a claustrophobic seizure, a water torture of family secrets.
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New York Magazine/Vulture
Rating: 3/4 --
Puts Gary Gilmore's tragic life into perspective, helping explain why it went so far amiss.
New York Post
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Delves deeply into the haunted life of the Gilmore family and finds a chronicle of death foretold.
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TV Guide
Energetically directed from Frank Pugliese's deft script by Agnieszka Holland.
Village Voice
Description by OLDIES.com:
January 1977. Gary Gilmore is about to become the first convicted murderer to be executed in a decade. His brother Mikal can help prevent the execution, but first he has to come to terms with the brother he barely knew. Together, they discover a shared past, born of a brutal father, raised in a family haunted by death, religion and superstition. With a media storm raging outside the prison, another storm is brewing inside as a tortured son meets his brother and his fate.
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 107,732
- UPC: 883316453605
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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