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	MCN Reviews: The Life of David Gale
		The Life of David Gale is a thriller with a social agenda.
		The broad strokes of the tale Gale unfolds is of an arrogant, self-centered individual undone by ego not the murder of a colleague (Laura Linney) and fellow activist.
		Regretably, The Life of David Gale is sober as a judge, oblivious to its own ironies or the ones existing outside the cinema.
	www.moviecitynews.com /reviews/david_gale.html (550 words)

	Movie Review: The Life of David Gale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gale tells his story and makes his claims of innocence to magazine reporter Bitsey Bloom (Kate Winslett) who first doubts him but then begins to wonder if there's not a bigger story here than she first thought.
		Gale, a well-respected Professor of Philosophy, was married to a beautiful woman and had a young son.
		Gale's life begins to fall apart, however, when he is accused of rape.
	www.ladylibrty.com /movie_review_archives/2003/life-of-david-gale.html (494 words)

	The Life of David Gale
		All this is shown in flashback as David Gale talks to Bitsey on the first of her three days' interviews before he is put to death on the fourth.
		Gale stipulated the terms, which include a half a mil and Bitsey, chosen, he tells her, for her refusal to disclose sources on a kiddie porn piece.
		As David tells her his story, though, it becomes obvious to her that the bright, intelligent, well-spoken man in the cage just may be telling the truth.
	www.reelingreviews.com /thelifeofdavidgale.htm (1347 words)

	The BigScreen Cinema Guide: Reader Reviews - The Life of David Gale
		David Gale is a man who has tried to live by his principles, but in a bizarre twist of fate this devoted father, popular professor and respected death penalty opponent finds himself on Death Row for...
		David Gale (Kevin Spacey) is a brilliant man with a destructive lifestyle; a false rape charge destroys his existence, and a separate murder conviction sends him to Texas' death row.
		Gale is the only character that breaks an archetype mold, but the viewer remains detached and doesn't become emotionally invested in his plight because he is too pathetic too soon in the flashbacks and almost entirely void of emotion in the conversations with Bloom.
	www.bigscreen.com /ReaderReview.php?movie=37857 (1097 words)

	The Life of David Gale review ** - CTF - starring Kevin Spacey
		We watched as David Gale debated the Governor on a political talk show, but was stumped when the Governor asked him to cite one incident in his state where an innocent man was put to death.
		Produced in part by Nicholas Cage, "The Life of David Gale" was another Hollywood film that inserted a-list actors into a movie that attempted to address a controversial political issue.
		In the case of "The Life of David Gale" however, the political message itself was put to death as a result of a twisted conclusion that tried its best to convince us of its sanity.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /Reviews/03/thelifeofdavidgale_review.htm (581 words)

	The Life of David Gale - Movie Review - Stylus Magazine
		Gale’s academic career is jeopardized after allegations that he raped a student, and though the false charges are eventually dropped, the gossip is not.
		Gale is put on an “extended sabbatical”, his wife leaves him and runs off to Spain with his son, and Gale begins his new career as an argumentative full-time scotch drinker.
		At Gale’s behest she is summoned to conduct an exclusive three day interview with the condemned who desperately maintains his innocence, while at the same time accepting his inevitable fate with the kind of grim resolve only a truly broken man can muster.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /feature.php?ID=217 (782 words)

	MovieFreak.Com - The Life of David Gale Review
		The Life of David Gale is one of those films that sticks with you after viewing it, like that warm full feeling after a delicious meal that leaves you on the couch yawning and rubbing your belly.
		David Gale (Kevin Spacey) is a man on death row for the rape and murder of his friend, and fellow death row abolitionist, Constance Harraway (Laura Linney).
		We witness everything through Bloom’s understanding of events as told to her by David Gale; it is only when pieces of videotape are found that we get a different perspective on Gale’s story.
	www.moviefreak.com /reviews/l/lifeofdavidgale_a.htm (555 words)

	The Life of David Gale (2003)
		As Gale begins to re-tell his tale to Bloom of just how he came to be guilty of rape and murder of fellow death penalty campaigner Constance Harraway (Laura Linney), the story flashes back several years to when Gale was still a professor and an active death penalty abolitionist.
		Gale is educated, urbane and passionate in his role as a death penalty abolitionist.
		Gale is convinced he was set up, and despite being found guilty by three different courts, he has never given up.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=3577 (2332 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Life Of David Gale (xhtml)
		"The Life of David Gale" tells the story of a famous opponent of capital punishment who, in what he must find an absurdly ironic development, finds himself on Death Row in Texas, charged with the murder of a woman who was also opposed to capital punishment.
		David Gale is an understandably bitter man, played by Kevin Spacey, who protests his innocence to a reporter named Bitsey Bloom (Kate Winslet), whom he has summoned to Texas for that purpose.
		The acting in "The Life of David Gale" is splendidly done but serves a meretricious cause.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030221/REVIEWS/302210304/1023 (714 words)

	The Life of David Gale
		When anti-death-penalty activist David Gale is convicted and condemned to death for the murder of a colleague, reporter Bitsey Bloom sets out to learn the story behind Gale's crime.
		Gale is a renowned professor, a staunch opponent of the death penalty, and works closely with Constance (Laura Linney) and a group called Death Watch to oppose capital punishment across the country.
		Gale is shown as a saint, an untainted character who was lured into a sexual character only because his wife was having an affair, who lost his job thanks to a mis-guided and “politically correct” University, and falls victim to alcoholism because he lost everything worth living for.
	movies.zertinet.com /2003/thelifeofdavidgale.htm (765 words)

	U-Daily News - Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Watching the dismal "The Life of David Gale," I was reminded of what Jack Nicholson told the daffy Hollywood Foreign Press Association when he accepted a best dramatic actor Golden Globe for his work in "About Schmidt." He didn't know whether to be flattered or insulted; after all, he thought he was making a comedy.
		In a way, "David Gale" is reminiscent of last February's issues-oriented stomach-turner "John Q," another movie that cynically took a hot-button issue and tried to turn it into a slick piece of escapist entertainment.
		Gale worked with Constance in opposing capital punishment and considered her to be his best friend.
	u.dailynews.com /Stories/0,1413,211~23516~1192358,00.html (510 words)

	Review: The Life of David Gale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		David Gale was a popular professor of philosophy at Austin University and an outspoken member of Death Watch, an organization that is fighting to abolish the death penalty.
		Gale tells that it sounds as though the man is Dusty (Matt Craven) a close friend of Constance and a local radical.
		When Bitsey isnt interviewing Gale she is investigation the murder, going to the scene of the crime and tries to put the pieces together to figure out the truth.
	www.countingdown.com /features?feature_id=2898217&print=1 (822 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Life of David Gale -- Alan Parker - DVD - Wide Screen
		David Gale (Kevin Spacey) was the head of the philosophy department at Austin University and the author of several well-regarded books; he was also an active and visible member of Deathwatch, an anti-capital punishment activist group.
		Now Gale awaits execution, and less than a week before his date with the fatal injection, Gale agrees to tell his story to Bitsey Bloom (Kate Winslet), a nervy journalist from a major newsmagazine, who arrives with her assistant, Zack Stemmons (Gabriel Mann).
		The Life of David Gale was co-produced by actor Nicolas Cage, who originally commissioned the script and intended to star in the film before prior commitments led him to hand the project over to director Alan Parker.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?userid=2ZW40SQW3S&ean=25192198625&FRM=0 (996 words)

	The Life of David Gale (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		IMDb > The Life of David Gale (2003)
		David Gale (Spacey) is a college professor about to be executed for a murder he did not commit.
		Soon David Gale has been "framed" for rape and is now "down and out." Okay, here's where Spacey goes for broke.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0289992 (725 words)

	The Life of David Gale
		Gale first discloses the framework of his first rape charge brought against him by a student, Berlin (Rhona Mitra), who made it clear that she would do anything for him when she finds herself near expulsion and needs better grades.
		Gale also discloses he has debated the Governor of Texas and as the debate is exposed he catches the limited governor mixing quotes from Hitler and the Governor's own speeches.
		Gale's lawyer is flawed and would not step aside when seasoned attorney's offered to work pro-bono.
	www.projections-movies.com /reviews/lifeofdavidgale.html (544 words)

	The Life of David Gale - Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gale has sent for a young journalist named Bitsie (Winslet) to record his story during his last three days before he's scheduled to be executed.
		It's no surprise that as Gale's story unfolds, Bitsie is forced to rush around to try and discover the truth behind the murder, but her intentions seem to be more of her trying to save Gale, rather than report the story.
		I would reccomend The Life of David Gale, and tell the viewer to be prepared to be blown or away, or at least be satisfied by it's ending.
	www.discoverkate.com /movies/david-gale/press_20020823_review-dh.html (410 words)

	MOVIE - THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE - Review Rating $$$ (OUT OF 10)
		The Life of David Gale wears its politics on its sleeve.
		David Gale, the philosophy professor, warns his students about being careful of what they wish for.
		He argues that a life measured by the number of toys you have is an empty life because things desired, once obtained, are no longer desirable.
	radio.weblogs.com /0108788/stories/2003/02/22/movieTheLifeOfDavidGaleRev.html (601 words)

	Frank's Reel Movie Reviews - Movie Review - The Life of David Gale
		The Life of David Gale's disturbingly sinister premise of a gruesome murder and subsequent revelations is needlessly imprisoned by its delivery and its awkward construction.
		Gale, a Harvard educated philosophy professor at the fictitious Austin University, is a staunch anti-capital punishment activist and ironically finds himself on death row in the last days of his appeals before his execution is to be carried out.
		Running as the schizophrenic backbeat to the thriller aspect of the movie is the story of Gale's life before his trial and subsequent conviction.
	www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/lifeofdavidgale.htm (904 words)

	The Life of David Gale \| ajc.com
		For some reason, I assumed that "The Life of David Gale" was based on a true story.
		Spacey plays David Gale, once a respected philosophy professor at a Texas university and a leader in an anti-death penalty group called Deathwatch.
		Portraying a woman who has no life outside her cause, she's as hard to recognize as Nicole Kidman is in "The Hours" -- and she does it without a fake nose (nothing against Kidman).
	www.ajc.com /movies/content/shared/movies/reviews/L/thelifeofdavidgale.html (553 words)

	The Life of David Gale (2003)
		As she listens to his story, which covers everything from how his life first unraveled with the loss of his job and breakup of his marriage to how the crime scene contained inconsistencies that never came up at his trial or through his many appeals, she begins to believe he's innocent.
		On the level of a thriller, The Life of David Gale is flabby, dependent on chance, coincidence, and characters who behave like pieces on the screenwriter's chessboard instead of like human beings with actual personalities, conflicts, and motivations.
		The real tragedy of The Life of David Gale is that the death penalty, whether one is for or against it, is an important issue.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=134835&buy=open&CID=18&PID=10110124&Tab=reviews (943 words)

	REVIEWS ARCHIVE: The Life of David Gale
		As she begins interviewing Gale, and allowing him to recount his downward spiral toward his current situation, she realizes that Gale just might not be guilty of his crime, and sets out to uncover what really happened.
		Alan Parker’s “The Life of David Gale” is equal parts investigative thriller and political sermon on the evils of capital punishment, with the former working almost flawlessly, and the latter belly flopping into a sea of embarrassment.
		Gale is set up as an unbridled liberal, holding so steadfastly to ideals of justice and the abolishment of cruel and usual punishment that, honestly, it makes him an easy target.
	www.ifvchicago.com /reviews/archive/lifeofdavidgale.shtml (681 words)

	The Life of David Gale
		Bitsey (c'mon folks) is an investigative reporter who Gale chooses because he thinks she will not compromise her sources and wants to prove his innocence.
		With his execution in a couple of days, Gale's tells his story to Bitsey and it is dramatized in flashbacks announced in dizzying sequences that flash words at you such as desire, murder, and punishment.
		The Life of David Gale is a cynical and dishonest film that should be sentenced to movie death row awaiting execution.
	www.talkingpix.co.uk /ReviewsDavidGale.html (579 words)

	A Movie Parable: The Life of David Gale
		David Gale (Kevin Spacey, K-Pax) is a popular university professor of philosophy and a leading activist for DeathWatch, an organization whose stand against the death penalty goes largely unheeded by the heartless right-wing politicians who control the Texas legislature.
		David's life takes a turn for the worse after one of his students falsely accuses him of rape.
		Thus, it is surprising for The Life of David Gale to misfire as badly as it does.
	www.christiancritic.com /mov2003/dgale.asp (587 words)

	The Life of David Gale
		David Gale (Kevin Spacey) is a brilliant philosophy professor who, after getting a divorce and being seduced by endless fifths of Jack Daniels, finds himself without a job and in prison for the rape and murder of his friend, fellow anti-death penalty activist (Laura Linney).
		Of course Bitsy is instantly on David's side as his flashback-heavy tale of ivory-tower-to-up-the-river (punctuated by just too many pointless references to Lacan, Socrates, Kant, and Kafka) builds to a series of the most confused messages and revelations since the last Ashley Judd thriller.
		Two-thirds of the way into The Life of David Gale, Spacey even has the moxie to assume the Christ pose on a lawn, crucified to the mast of a sinking ship by now a fourth nail (after K-Pax, Pay it Forward, The Shipping News).
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/lifeofdavidgale.htm (850 words)

	The Life of David Gale
		Kevin Spacey as David Gale; Kate Winslet as Bitsey; Laura Linney as Constance Harraway; Gabriel Mann as Zack; Matt Craven as Dusty; Leon Rippy as Braxton Belyeu
		Professor David Gale used to be a spokesman for the anti-death penalty advocacy group DeathWatch.
		Davidâs extramarital party fling is graphically depicted (suffice it to say that it includes partial nudity, multiple sexual positions and physical roughness).
	www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0000107.cfm (1257 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'The Life of David Gale'
		The irony of Gale's fate is only one of many twists in the movie, which navigates more 90-degree angles than a rat in a laboratory.
		Gale's story seems to be one of entrapment: first by a steamy student, then by an academic rumor mill that condemns him as politically incorrect, if not legally guilty.
		When Gale's small son is endangered, Gale loses what self-control he possessed, careening into an alcoholic existence, sleeping in his car and showing up on Constance's patio unannounced.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.20.03/gale-0308.html (584 words)

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