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Title: Flat and overblown.
Review: ...Despite its pretensions, The Life Of David Gale is little more than a R rated version of the sort of schlock that frequently appears on the Lifetime network. Instead of Aidan Quinn, Mary Stewart Masterson and Holly Hunter we get "bigger" names in the form of Spacey, Kate Winslet and Laura Linney.Unfortunately Winslet (whose had difficulty finding anything worthwhile to appear in since Titanic) spends much of the films duration struggling with an unflattering American accent. Spacey does that "unhinged" thing he's now spent a decade doing and Linney appears to be doing an impersonation of Holly Hunter.Not a terrible film, just a film that appears to be a little too taken with how important it thinks it is.Oh, and the ending (like Pay It Forward) has to be seen to be believed.
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