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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783120485
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0783120486
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 12, 2002
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 54936
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 13, 2001
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Moody, Absorbing Adaptation Of A Great Book
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 ... Read More
Rating: - 6 days til death and the lives of two brothers
With six days to go before he is sentenced to be executed,two-time murderer Gary Gilmore and his littlest brother,Mikal,meet for the first time in twenty two years.In these six days, meeting in a claustrophic prison,these two brothers have major epiphanies about who they are,where they have come from and where each is destined to go in life.The book,SHOT IN THE HEART by Mikal Gilmore is quite condensed,but compellingly brought to the screen by famed and very diverse director Agnieszka Holland (EUROPA EUROPA,THE ... Read More
Rating:  - Riveting
Great performances by all actors in this film make for a riveting account of Gary Gilmore's last days in prison and the attempt by his brother Mikal to make a human connection with him. Stongly recommended.
Rating:  - Depressing yet compelling
This is about the murderer Gary Gilmore and primarily about the days before his execution. At times this film dragged and I liked the flashbacks the most. Where you got to know what made Gilmore the man he became. He had a violent childhood where his dad beat on him and his brother Frank but he got the worst of it. He was in and out of jail since he was 14.
I don't like the death penalty. I think incarceration for life is enough and let God be the judge. I find it highly disturbing that someone like ... Read More
Rating: - Mixup
The previous review mixes up the performers. Ribisi plays the brother and Koteas plays Gilmore.
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