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Director: Lawrence Schiller
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Christine Lahti, Rosanna Arquette, Eli Wallach, Steven Keats
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD

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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

32 reviews
Sales Rank: 14646

Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 135
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6

MPN: PARD852264D
UPC: 097368522640
EAN: 0097368522640
ASIN: B000Q6GUWK

Theatrical Release Date: November 28, 1982
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Product Description
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/05/2008 Run time: 157 minutes

Amazon.com
Although 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

Customer Reviews: Read 27 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Tommy Lee Jones is Fantastic November 26, 2008
Tommy Lee Jones really did an exceptional job in this film, he really had me feeling sorry for Gary Gilmore. This is an excellent film, I highly recommend it.

4 out of 5 stars

Excellant movie October 4, 2008
What can you say about Tommy Lee Jones and Rosanna Arquette.
THey are always great.

1 out of 5 stars

I Want My Two Hours Back October 4, 2008
I want my two hours back, the two hours of my life I wasted watching this abomination of a recut classic. How a director could savage and homogenize his greatest accomplishment is totally beyond me.

Put simply, the original was white hot in it's display of the sexual magnetism between the two exceedingly pitiful main characters - hot enough to be the work Tommy Lee Jones and Roseanne Arquette's future performances would forever be judged against.

But it isn't just the fleeting but heavenly sights of Ms. Arquette skirting in and out of the sheets that we're missing here. It's giant chunks of storytelling and character development.

Dumbed down and made safe as milk, a daring film made dull as dishwater.

Avoid at all costs. I mean it... if you see it at a yard sale for 49 cents, leave it on the pile with the broken 8 track player and the baby sneakers. Total rubbish.

1 out of 5 stars

Censorship makes this a totally different movie. Too bad October 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

The original move was uncensored but I hardly recognized this mess as the same movie I enjoyed so many years ago. I made the mistake of thinking "Director's Cut" meant it was the original film. Boy was I wrong!

The only reason to purchase this chopped to pieces version is to use it as an example of our purtain, censorious moral beliefs in a society that rates violent movies as G or PG and lovemaking or nudity as R or X.

What a perfect example of our upside-down beliefs.

You are missing a great movie here, but not this gutted version!

1 out of 5 stars

the executioner's song September 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

this dvd has been edited. if there were less, if would have given it. no stars

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