The Executioner's Song (Director's Cut)
by Lawrence Schiller
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Actor: Christine Lahti, Eli Wallach, Rosanna Arquette, Steven Keats, Tommy Lee JonesDirector: Lawrence Schiller
Brand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 135 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Executioner's Song (Director's Cut)
Movie Review: Jones, Arquette Play Interesting-But-Sick 'Characters'
Summary: 4 Stars
For a long "television film," I thought this story moved along well, even with the main characters being so sleazy the story gets a little unappealing at times. Of course, when has Rosanna Arquette ever played anything else in her younger days? Also, when did she not show off her big breasts? (not that I'm complaining).
As for Tommy Lee Jones, who plays the main character "Gary Gilmore," I've always found him interesting, too. In this, Jones plays the famous real-life killer while Arquette is "Nicole Baker," his teenage girlfriend. Jones does a nice job showing how mentally messed up Gilmore was back then.
I was surprised at the language in here for a television movie, but then again, I saw the "European version" of this movie on a VHS. The American version, I assume, cut out some that language and perhaps some of Arquette's "skin."
Summary of The Executioner's Song (Director's Cut)
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/05/2008 Run time: 157 minutesAlthough Gary Gilmore had a pitiful life, it was enough of an American story gone bad to give Normal Mailer a platform for a grand, strange, utterly compelling book: The Executioner's Song, published in 1979. Mailer's literary collaborator, Lawrence Schiller, made the book into a TV-movie (with Mailer scripting), a landmark for its frankness and the general excellence of its acting. Gilmore is brought to vivid life by Tommy Lee Jones, who electrified audiences with his insightful work (this, coming shortly after Coal Miner's Daughter, was one of the roles that really put Jones on the map). Even more revelatory was Rosanna Arquette, virtually unknown at the time, whose role as Gilmore's girlfriend and "guardian angel" instantly put her on the A-list. The heat the two actors generate goes a long way toward establishing their unholy bond, credibility the film absolutely needs in order to work; watch them in an early scene where Gilmore describes the mystical nature of their connection, and you see two actors working at an uncanny level. The approach overall is plain, but that might be why the movie is so effective. This version, advertised as the "Director's Cut," is a curious amalgam of the movie's other versions; the original U.S. TV cut, which stretched out over two nights, and a European cut that included nudity and unexpurgated language. This one is 135 minutes long, has the language, but not the nudity--a swifter-moving entity than either of the previous films. It can't really be called a definitive issue, although the power of the material still comes through. --Robert Horton
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