Shot in the Heart

Shot in the Heart
by Agnieszka Holland

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Actor: Anne Kathryn Parma, Ashley Edwards, Evyn Clark, Kim Abunuwara, Rick Macy
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Barry Levinson
Producer: Irene Burns
Producer: Jim Finnerty
Producer: Nina Kostroff-Noble
Producer: Tom Fontana
Writer: Frank Pugliese
Writer: Mikal Gilmore
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Hbo Home Video

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Movie Review: Moody, Absorbing Adaptation Of A Great Book
Summary: 4 Stars

This is HBO's movie version of director Agnieszka Holland's adaptation of Mikal Gilmore's book "Shot In the Heart". It is produced by Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana, the guys behind the late, great TV series "Homicide" and "Oz", and the end credits say the film was shot mostly in Baltimore, the locale of "Homicide" (there are some exterior shots of Salt Lake, including Temple Square; and Provo canyon.) Giovanni Ribisi plays Mikal Gilmore and Elias Koteas is Gary Gilmore (a far cry from his kind-hearted soldier in the movie "The Thin Red Line.") The playwright Sam Shepard portrays Frank Gilmore, Sr. and Amy Madigan is Bessie Gilmore. The film lacks the epic, time- and space-spanning quality of Mikal's book. It's more an intense chamber piece; I can easily envision a stage version. It's very reminiscent of an episode of "Homicide"; it has the same dark intensity. It uses Mikal's scary tales of rural Utah Mormon mythology: blood atonement, three Nephites (pronounced here "Neff-ites") and ghosts. We see things from Mikal's perspective, so it's possible to see these elements as part of a depiction of a disturbed family's collective world-view. We choose to see what we want to see, and the bloody ethos depicted here is real, but it's only a partial glimpse of the local heritage. It's a gripping film, but for LDS viewers, caveat emptor.

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Summary of Shot in the Heart

January 1977. Gary Gilmore is about the become the first conviced 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 prision another storm is brewing inside as a tortured son meets his brother and his fate.Running Time: 98 min.System Requirements: Running Time 97 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?R UPC:?026359189425

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