The Life of David Gale (Widescreen Edition)

The Life of David Gale (Widescreen Edition)


Starring:Jim Beaver, Matt Craven, Jesse De Luna, Vernon Grote, Constance Jones, Cleo King, Laura Linney, Brandy Little, Katie Lott, Gabriel Mann, Rhona Mitra, Leon Rippy, Lee Ritchey, Kevin Spacey, Kimberly Tortorice, Noah Truesdale, Cindy Waite, Kate Winslet, Larissa Wolcott
Studio: Universal Studios
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey (American Beauty) stars with Oscar nominee Kate Winslet (Titanic) in a powerfully gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller hailed as provocative (ABC-TV). An electrifying suspenseful journey into deadly conspiracy and murderous deception begins when a respected professor who may or may not be guilty is charged with a brutal crime. The Life of David Gale is a brilliantly unpredictable thriller, which builds relentlessly to a shocking final twist guaranteed to blow you away!

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  • Starring Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney
  • Directed by Alan Parker
  • Running time: 2 Hours 11 Minutes
  • Copyright Universal Studios 2003

    Format: DVD MOVIE
    Amazon.com
    Kevin Spacey (American Beauty) plays David Gale, a brilliant but hard-drinking anti-death penalty crusader on death row for a rape and murder that he claims he didn't commit. The victim of the crime is Gale's close friend and anti-death penalty colleague (Laura Linney, You Can Count On Me), so Gale argues that he's been set up to discredit the cause. Committed journalist Bitsey Bloom (Kate Winslet, Titanic) takes it upon herself to figure the whole thing out--and so we follow her through a ridiculous plot full of supposedly shocking twists that are telegraphed far in advance and make very little sense when they arrive. The overwritten script tries to cover too many hot-button issues and gives Spacey way too many showy scenes where he gets to be passionate and caring, which is creepier than his psychopath roles in The Usual Suspects and Seven. --Bret Fetzer
    PCU
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • PCU
    • Oh yeah
    • A great movie
    • Don't be that guy
    • Excellent
    PCU
    Starring: Jeremy Piven , Chris Young , Megan Ward , Jon Favreau , and Alex Désert
    Director: Hart Bochner
    Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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    ASIN: B00009WVSJ
    Release Date: 2003-09-02

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    Almost 10 years before playing a by-the-books college dean in Old School, Jeremy Piven was King Slob of an underground fraternity in this frequently amusing cult comedy. Piven is Droz, who introduces nervous freshman Chris Young to his eclectic frat-mates (which include Jon Favreau) while steering clear of vicious prepster David Spade and malevolent school head Jessica Walter. Piven's off-the-cuff humor and the capable cast help anchor the film's gleefully anarchic tone, which is refreshingly free of the cheap scatological gags that usually sink collegiate comedies. The result is a breezy, likable comedy that should please fans of cinematic campus capers. 20th Century Fox's surprisingly extra-laden DVD includes fullscreen and widescreen versions of the film, as well as commentaries by a typically wry Piven and director Hart Bochner; a short behind-the-scenes featurette; a video for Mudhoney's cover of Elvis Costello's "Pump It Up," which is featured on the soundtrack, and the original theatrical trailer. --Paul Gaita

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    Welcome to Port Chester University, where the Politically Correct go head-to-head with the Party Animals in the rowdiest college comedy since "Animal House." With all the new social rules on political correctness, the only fun place left on campus is The

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars PCU.......2007-03-09

    I thought this product was awsome, and I recieved this product way before the delivery date. Recommend buying from seller again.


    4 out of 5 stars Oh yeah.......2006-08-19

    PCU is a great college comedy. It is a classic, Jeremy Piven is a chicago boy and he is also one of the funniest people currently on tv (Entourage). If you have never seen this movie, it is an absolute must!

    5 out of 5 stars A great movie.......2006-07-25

    I'm so glad this movie came out on DVD. No matter how many times we watch it it's always funny.

    5 out of 5 stars Don't be that guy.......2005-12-28

    Perhaps not so much on the larger scale, but to my friends and I, this is a classic college flick. The characters are unique, yet essentially based on people we all knew in college. The storyline, as previously reviewed, is not earth-moving, but I doubt it was intended to be. It's simply a movie that moves from one hilarious scene to the next, with plenty of great lines to quote.

    Great movie!

    5 out of 5 stars Excellent.......2005-09-06

    College movie just don't get any better then this. If you are a fan on "Animal House," David Spade, Jeremy Piven, or John Favreau then this is a movie you need to see.
    Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Excellent movie, stupid distributers
    • SHAMEFULLY NOT ON DVD!!!
    Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
    Starring: Paul Newman , Joanne Woodward , Joan Collins , Jack Carson , and Dwayne Hickman
    Director: Leo McCarey
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    ASIN: B000P6XPX8
    Release Date: 2007-07-10

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Excellent movie, stupid distributers.......2007-03-01

    Distributers and Hollywood moguls take note, you could make a lot of money simply by making this movie available on DVD. This is an excellent sex comedy starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins, Dwayne Hickman, Tuesday Weld and a lot of other really fine actors. Max Schulman was a genius at making us believe the unbelievable in his books and this movie carries on that wonderful trait. Please, dummies, make this available. Please? I found this for sale on DVDR on ioffer.com. If the idiots won't release it for commercial sale, then this is obviously the only way to get it.

    5 out of 5 stars SHAMEFULLY NOT ON DVD!!!.......2006-09-28

    THIS IS ANOTHER GREAT CLASSIC STARRING PAUL NEWMAN,JOANNE WOODWARD AND JOAN COLLINS THAT UNFORTUNATELY ISN'T ON DVD.DISTRIBUTORS TAKE NOTICE!!PLEASE MAKE IT AFFORDABLE AND ACCESSIBLE!!
    H.P. Lovecraft's Bride of Re-Animator
    Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    • Lovecraft's "Frankenstein"
    • Enjoyable follow-up to a cult classic!
    • "You made me!!"
    • Budget Edition( Read: Minimal Extras)
    • "This is not just about re-animating the dead anymore. We can create new life!"
    H.P. Lovecraft's Bride of Re-Animator
    Starring: Jeffrey Combs , Bruce Abbott , Claude Earl Jones , Fabiana Udenio , and David Gale
    Director: Brian Yuzna
    Manufacturer: Lions Gate
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    ASIN: B00009YXHN
    Release Date: 2003-08-19

    Product Description

    The mad Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), the tormented Dr. Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), and the beheaded Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale) return in this terrifying sequel to Re-Animator, the most deliriously outrageous horror movie of the decade.

    It's been eight months since the Miskatonic Massacre stained the halls with blood-and Dr. West and Dr. Cain's experiments have taken a bizarre turn. Now they have gone beyond re-animating the dead...into the realm of creating new life. The legs of a hooker and the womb of a virgin are joined to the heart of Dr. Cain's dead girlfriend-and the bride is unleashed upon her mate in a climax of sensual horror.
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  • Full Screen Version
  • 2.0 Dolby Stereo Surround
  • Scene Access
  • Interactive Menus


    System Requirements:
  • Run Time: 99 Min


    Format: DVD MOVIE

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Lovecraft's "Frankenstein".......2006-12-29

    Well, basing this on the quality of Lovecraft screenplays, and taking into account the budget et al, this movie definitely holds its own. It's not the genre's fault that the only people brave enough to pick up the ultimate master of horror's gauntlet are the lower budget variety (sorry, Gordon and Yunza, no offense intended). Of course Jeffry Combs steals the show, as usual. This movie is loosely based on Herbert West, Reanimator, and does have a very well done Lovecraftian mood throughout the whole film. Defintely one of the "must watch" movies in the Lovecraft arena. Watch it, buy it, own it. Three tentacles up!

    4 out of 5 stars Enjoyable follow-up to a cult classic!.......2005-11-10

    After the original, Herbert West ( Jeffery Combs) and Dan Cain (Bruce Abbot)have returned from medical miltary duty in South America as they return back home as they have perfected their re-agent formula to continue experimentint. But Herbert however gets an idea to collect body parts especially the heart of Cain's old girlfriend "Meg" to create the perfect re-animated woman, however Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale) has been re-animated back to life by accident as he still has powers to control zombies and want revenge for what West did to him.

    Not as great as the 1985 cult horror comedy masterpiece "Re-Animator" but really enjoyable! the acting is kind of average but there's nice splatter in this movie including a variety of odd re-animated critters like a finger creature with a human eye attached done by Screaming Mad George, David Allen (Puppet Master, Q The Winged Serpant and Young Sherlock Holmes). Like the original movie this has dark humor to propell along with gruesomeness, all in all is that it's not a bad follow-up but still worth watching.

    This DVD is pratically bareboned with a alright transfer with no trailer! but that's ok, if you enjoyed the original then you'll probably like this one as well.

    4 out of 5 stars "You made me!!".......2005-09-30

    A little time has passed and Miskatonic University has returned to a semblance of normalcy. Somehow or other Doctors Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) and Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) are back practicing medicine and mayhem in the halls of the college hospital. Megan Halsey, Cain's love from the first re-animator file lies dying and Cain is desperate to save her life - in a normal fashion. West, of course, has no such compunctions. He's down in their basement lab working on a whole new approach for gluing bits together (if you watch carefully, this film is rife with Frankenstein references).

    The initial phases of the film are predictable, and every bit as hokey as the first, classic film. West scavenges parts where he may and glues them together in strange combinations. Lt. Chapham (Claude Jones) stalks the two medicos, determined to expose them for the fiends that drove his wife insane. And Dr. Graves (Mel Stewart) the coroner manages to revitalize Dr. Carl Hill's (David Gale) head and fix it up so that it can fly like a bat. In the midst of all this madness, Francesca Danelli (Fabiana Udenio) struts about being beautiful and partially undressed. Just like old times.

    But suddenly the film takes a deeper turn during the frantic final sequences. Megan's head is used to complete Dr. Hill's eerie bride, and all the comedy replays the same serious questions that Mary Shelley's story raised a long time before. Is challenging the divine power of creation within man's capacity? What does the creator owe to one brought into existence. West refers to his creations as useless bits of tissue, but it is clear that they are not. The mixture of ethics and frantic humor is surprisingly engaging, and this film is almost as good as Re-animator. Take a look if you're in the mood for something strange.

    5 out of 5 stars Budget Edition( Read: Minimal Extras).......2005-09-23

    Whilst this DVD looks like it is a direct transfer from a Vestron Video tape, with new credits for some of the recent companies( Vestron went bust, I heard), the DVD is a decent watch, and has everything I loved and vaguely remember.
    Unless there is something done in the recovered edition that I am unaware of for REANIMATOR, West is NOT killed, and Megan Halsey is not saved ... Megan most definitely dies, and she may be reanimated, but then it is conceivable that someone had dismembered her in death if her reanimation was partial( especially since Megan's heart is separated, but it may be a convenient plot point, however... WHO CARES ?? ). What is really aggravating about this budget disc, is that the extras are clearly available, but if you check out the other disc reference for BRIDE OF, the prices are outrageous ... especially when REANIMATOR MILLENNIUM EDITION has a bundle of goodies with it, and is virtually the same or comparable price as the minimalist BRIDE OF REANIMATOR.
    The FX are great. Screaming Mad George, and the other FX people do a superb job, even with the over the top Bat winged head of Dr Hill . The elements are virtually seemless.
    For the nature of the story, it is quite a decent piece of work.
    At worst it is a very fun popcorn film, at best, it is a fun horror-comedy that has "Dr West" spouting many dead-pan and funny lines that totally work with an actor like Jeffrey Coombs.
    The So-called Nudity is extremely minimal; the gore is not excessive, and is always in context ( what do you expect when an arterial line is severed????), and basically it works.
    It's not as good as the original, nor BEYOND, but it is a great fun piece... or pieces, and dare I say, a cut above the rest that gets under your skin :-)

    4 out of 5 stars "This is not just about re-animating the dead anymore. We can create new life!".......2005-07-18

    I Love the Re-Animator films simply because of the hidden element of humor they contain. We try not to laugh at some of the cheesy zombie moments because we want to stay in a serious frame of mind but it's hardly possible when the zombies begin making one-liners and it becomes horribly noticeable that Herbert West is extremely dumb for a smart person. (I hope that makes since.) This movie takes place months after the Miskatonic Massacre in Arkham Massachusetts. West and Dan Cain are taking advantage of their new surrounding in a civil war in South America. Being doctor gives them access to all the dead bodies, fresh subjects, that can be used in their re-animation experiments. When things get bad, West and Cain pack up their bags and head back to Arkham. Here they become doctors at the local hospital, yet again very fortunate. This is where things begin to take off. West is stealing body parts and trying to get Dan to help him create a sort of Frankenstein monster. The real kicker is that the heart used for the gruesome experiment is the heart of Dan's deceased lover Meg. Unknowingly another doctor at the morgue, whom found a bottle of West's re-agent the night of the massacre, once again re-animates Dr. Hill from the first film. Hill wants revenge on West and in the final climax of the film when West and Cain's Frankenstein creation is born, Hill arrives to "crash" the party. This film is rather entertaining and extremely good for gore lovers. The only thing i wasn't so fond of at first is the fact that in the last movie they were struggling just to re-animate corpses and in this film they've actually made the transition of life creating. That would be cool but in the next film in the series West is pretty much back to Re-animation rather than recreation. So i'm gathering he didn't find his previous exploits successful. And is it just me or does Herbert West die at the end of each movie? If he's dead, how's there a sequel? They've worn this gimmick out. But rest assure Re-Animator fans, how much longer can it be until Jeffrey Combs dons the glasses and picks up the needle again? A sequel is long over due.
    The Life of David Gale (Widescreen Edition)
    Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    • Something Was Missing
    • One of the great undiscovered flicks.
    • Worth watching
    • very good
    • Relatively Disappointing Considering The People Involved
    The Life of David Gale (Widescreen Edition)
    Starring: Jim Beaver , Matt Craven , Jesse De Luna , Vernon Grote , and Constance Jones
    Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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    ASIN: B00005JLZN
    Release Date: 2003-07-22

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    Kevin Spacey (American Beauty) plays David Gale, a brilliant but hard-drinking anti-death penalty crusader on death row for a rape and murder that he claims he didn't commit. The victim of the crime is Gale's close friend and anti-death penalty colleague (Laura Linney, You Can Count On Me), so Gale argues that he's been set up to discredit the cause. Committed journalist Bitsey Bloom (Kate Winslet, Titanic) takes it upon herself to figure the whole thing out--and so we follow her through a ridiculous plot full of supposedly shocking twists that are telegraphed far in advance and make very little sense when they arrive. The overwritten script tries to cover too many hot-button issues and gives Spacey way too many showy scenes where he gets to be passionate and caring, which is creepier than his psychopath roles in The Usual Suspects and Seven. --Bret Fetzer

    Product Description

    Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey (American Beauty) stars with Oscar nominee Kate Winslet (Titanic) in a powerfully gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller hailed as provocative (ABC-TV). An electrifying suspenseful journey into deadly conspiracy and murderous deception begins when a respected professor who may or may not be guilty is charged with a brutal crime. The Life of David Gale is a brilliantly unpredictable thriller, which builds relentlessly to a shocking final twist guaranteed to blow you away!

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  • Starring Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney
  • Directed by Alan Parker
  • Running time: 2 Hours 11 Minutes
  • Copyright Universal Studios 2003

    Format: DVD MOVIE

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Something Was Missing.......2007-03-22

    I don't know quite how to put it. The Life of David Gale is certainly a message film sprinkled with suspense, but the ending left me bewildered. Why did the murder suspect mail Bitsey a second tape that showed David Gale involved with the suicide? Other questions I raise are: What motive did Berlin have for charging Gale with rape? Why did Gale's wife and son flee to Italy or was it Spain? Is Gale's situation so hopeless that he decides to die for the cause? Gale and the murder suspect didn't seem to have a strong bond of friendship, yet what would compel the murder suspect to travel to Europe with a suitcase of money and make sure that Gale's wife receives it? Does anyone have any answers? The film is complex with its layers of left wing politics, morality plays, and Hitchcockian twists, but still comes up short. A classic film that contrasts innocence with guilt without the death penalty issue is The Wrong Man starring Henry Fonda.

    5 out of 5 stars One of the great undiscovered flicks........2007-03-21

    Just one of those great movies that didnt get the recognition that it deserved. Of course, Kevin Spacey is one of the best actors of his time in my opinion, but overall this movie is a must see.

    4 out of 5 stars Worth watching.......2007-02-10

    This was a film of two intentions - a thriller, and a message movie. It is a worthy intention to put the message into some context as a thriller to make it palatable; it makes the medicine easier to swallow. However the film is beset by a problem of balance .. Where the thriller slacks off, the message seems too in your face, and where the thriller takes off it seems too shallow for want of the message.
    Alan Parker handled the balance so much better in Mississippi Burning, that if you came to this expecting the same standard you would be very disappointed.
    However, the cast do adequately, and Spacey and Linney do brilliantly, adding the depth that makes the film engrossing enough to enjoy watching.
    Those who are expecting the film to hold its own as a thriller will be disappointed however.

    5 out of 5 stars very good.......2007-01-23

    This movie is well written and the acting is great. Yet Again, Kevin Spacey gives a great performance. His job being a drunk philosphy prof. walking down the street loudly lecturing people as they happen to walk by is simply brillant. Kate Winslet is very convincing as a sympathic journalist. The writing is original and thoughtful. It has a great premise with a even greater and suprising ending. I was pleasantly suprised by this movie.

    3 out of 5 stars Relatively Disappointing Considering The People Involved.......2006-09-12

    The Life of David Gale is an attempted morality play on the subject of the death penalty in America today. Its title character, a former Texas college professor and anti-death penalty activist, David Gale, stands convicted of murdering his friend, played by Laura Linney, and is down to the final days of his existence on this earth. His downwardly-spiraling life story, from arrogant leftist intellectual to condemned inmate, is told in flashback form via the exploration of the case by an idealistic young reporter, Bitsy Bloom, who believes in Gale's innocence and desperately seeks to prove it before it is too late. With the talent Alan Parker had here this should have been a great film, but the plot was dense and the characters one and all with the exception of Kate Winslet's naively duped reporter, Bitsy, were so disturbed and disturbing that I didn't like them. This is a bleak motion picture that seems padded out to the point of it being obvious this was a one message story. I honestly think the writers had just a single firm notion here, that being how they wished to end The Life of David Gale with its admittedly powerful twist, and the remainder of the run-time was hasty-concocted filler.
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    Release Date: 2003-07-22

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    Kevin Spacey (American Beauty) plays David Gale, a brilliant but hard-drinking anti-death penalty crusader on death row for a rape and murder that he claims he didn't commit. The victim of the crime is Gale's close friend and anti-death penalty colleague (Laura Linney, You Can Count On Me), so Gale argues that he's been set up to discredit the cause. Committed journalist Bitsey Bloom (Kate Winslet, Titanic) takes it upon herself to figure the whole thing out--and so we follow her through a ridiculous plot full of supposedly shocking twists that are telegraphed far in advance and make very little sense when they arrive. The overwritten script tries to cover too many hot-button issues and gives Spacey way too many showy scenes where he gets to be passionate and caring, which is creepier than his psychopath roles in The Usual Suspects and Seven. --Bret Fetzer

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    3 out of 5 stars Something Was Missing.......2007-03-22

    I don't know quite how to put it. The Life of David Gale is certainly a message film sprinkled with suspense, but the ending left me bewildered. Why did the murder suspect mail Bitsey a second tape that showed David Gale involved with the suicide? Other questions I raise are: What motive did Berlin have for charging Gale with rape? Why did Gale's wife and son flee to Italy or was it Spain? Is Gale's situation so hopeless that he decides to die for the cause? Gale and the murder suspect didn't seem to have a strong bond of friendship, yet what would compel the murder suspect to travel to Europe with a suitcase of money and make sure that Gale's wife receives it? Does anyone have any answers? The film is complex with its layers of left wing politics, morality plays, and Hitchcockian twists, but still comes up short. A classic film that contrasts innocence with guilt without the death penalty issue is The Wrong Man starring Henry Fonda.

    5 out of 5 stars One of the great undiscovered flicks........2007-03-21

    Just one of those great movies that didnt get the recognition that it deserved. Of course, Kevin Spacey is one of the best actors of his time in my opinion, but overall this movie is a must see.

    4 out of 5 stars Worth watching.......2007-02-10

    This was a film of two intentions - a thriller, and a message movie. It is a worthy intention to put the message into some context as a thriller to make it palatable; it makes the medicine easier to swallow. However the film is beset by a problem of balance .. Where the thriller slacks off, the message seems too in your face, and where the thriller takes off it seems too shallow for want of the message.
    Alan Parker handled the balance so much better in Mississippi Burning, that if you came to this expecting the same standard you would be very disappointed.
    However, the cast do adequately, and Spacey and Linney do brilliantly, adding the depth that makes the film engrossing enough to enjoy watching.
    Those who are expecting the film to hold its own as a thriller will be disappointed however.

    5 out of 5 stars very good.......2007-01-23

    This movie is well written and the acting is great. Yet Again, Kevin Spacey gives a great performance. His job being a drunk philosphy prof. walking down the street loudly lecturing people as they happen to walk by is simply brillant. Kate Winslet is very convincing as a sympathic journalist. The writing is original and thoughtful. It has a great premise with a even greater and suprising ending. I was pleasantly suprised by this movie.

    3 out of 5 stars Relatively Disappointing Considering The People Involved.......2006-09-12

    The Life of David Gale is an attempted morality play on the subject of the death penalty in America today. Its title character, a former Texas college professor and anti-death penalty activist, David Gale, stands convicted of murdering his friend, played by Laura Linney, and is down to the final days of his existence on this earth. His downwardly-spiraling life story, from arrogant leftist intellectual to condemned inmate, is told in flashback form via the exploration of the case by an idealistic young reporter, Bitsy Bloom, who believes in Gale's innocence and desperately seeks to prove it before it is too late. With the talent Alan Parker had here this should have been a great film, but the plot was dense and the characters one and all with the exception of Kate Winslet's naively duped reporter, Bitsy, were so disturbed and disturbing that I didn't like them. This is a bleak motion picture that seems padded out to the point of it being obvious this was a one message story. I honestly think the writers had just a single firm notion here, that being how they wished to end The Life of David Gale with its admittedly powerful twist, and the remainder of the run-time was hasty-concocted filler.
    Choices
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    4 out of 5 stars Choices George C. Scott, Melissa Gilbert, Jaqueline Bisset.......2005-04-07

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    Evan (George C. Scott) and Marisa granger (Jaqueline Bisset) are happily married dispite the fact he is thirty years older than his wife. Their lives are thrown into turmoil when Terry (Melissa Gilbert), Evans nineteen year old daughter from a previous marriage returns home and confides to Marisa she is pregnant. Terry does not want her father to know she plans to have an abortion. Soon Evan learns her situation and forbids the abortion. Meanwhile, quit unexpectedly, Marisa learns she is pregnant. Evan now shifts 180 degrees and forbids his wife to have the child.
    Bride of Re-Animator
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    The mad Dr. Herbert West, the tormented Dr. Dan Cain, and the beheaded Dr. Carl Hill return in this terrifying sequel to "Re-Animator", the most deliriously outrageous horror movie of the decade. It's been eight months since the Miskatonic Massacre stained the halls with blood - and Dr. West and Dr. Cain's experiments have taken a bizarre turn. Now they have gone beyond re-animating the dead...into the realm of creating new life. The legs of a hooker and the womb of a virgin are joined to the heart of Dr. Cain's dead girlfriend - and the bride is unleashed upon her mate in a climax of sensual horror. Special Features include: Audio commentaries. Deleted scenes. Never-before-seen behind the scenes footage. Detailed coverage of the make-up effects. Never before seen photographs. Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, David Gale

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    4 out of 5 stars Lovecraft's "Frankenstein".......2006-12-29

    Well, basing this on the quality of Lovecraft screenplays, and taking into account the budget et al, this movie definitely holds its own. It's not the genre's fault that the only people brave enough to pick up the ultimate master of horror's gauntlet are the lower budget variety (sorry, Gordon and Yunza, no offense intended). Of course Jeffry Combs steals the show, as usual. This movie is loosely based on Herbert West, Reanimator, and does have a very well done Lovecraftian mood throughout the whole film. Defintely one of the "must watch" movies in the Lovecraft arena. Watch it, buy it, own it. Three tentacles up!

    4 out of 5 stars Enjoyable follow-up to a cult classic!.......2005-11-10

    After the original, Herbert West ( Jeffery Combs) and Dan Cain (Bruce Abbot)have returned from medical miltary duty in South America as they return back home as they have perfected their re-agent formula to continue experimentint. But Herbert however gets an idea to collect body parts especially the heart of Cain's old girlfriend "Meg" to create the perfect re-animated woman, however Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale) has been re-animated back to life by accident as he still has powers to control zombies and want revenge for what West did to him.

    Not as great as the 1985 cult horror comedy masterpiece "Re-Animator" but really enjoyable! the acting is kind of average but there's nice splatter in this movie including a variety of odd re-animated critters like a finger creature with a human eye attached done by Screaming Mad George, David Allen (Puppet Master, Q The Winged Serpant and Young Sherlock Holmes). Like the original movie this has dark humor to propell along with gruesomeness, all in all is that it's not a bad follow-up but still worth watching.

    This DVD is pratically bareboned with a alright transfer with no trailer! but that's ok, if you enjoyed the original then you'll probably like this one as well.

    4 out of 5 stars "You made me!!".......2005-09-30

    A little time has passed and Miskatonic University has returned to a semblance of normalcy. Somehow or other Doctors Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) and Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) are back practicing medicine and mayhem in the halls of the college hospital. Megan Halsey, Cain's love from the first re-animator file lies dying and Cain is desperate to save her life - in a normal fashion. West, of course, has no such compunctions. He's down in their basement lab working on a whole new approach for gluing bits together (if you watch carefully, this film is rife with Frankenstein references).

    The initial phases of the film are predictable, and every bit as hokey as the first, classic film. West scavenges parts where he may and glues them together in strange combinations. Lt. Chapham (Claude Jones) stalks the two medicos, determined to expose them for the fiends that drove his wife insane. And Dr. Graves (Mel Stewart) the coroner manages to revitalize Dr. Carl Hill's (David Gale) head and fix it up so that it can fly like a bat. In the midst of all this madness, Francesca Danelli (Fabiana Udenio) struts about being beautiful and partially undressed. Just like old times.

    But suddenly the film takes a deeper turn during the frantic final sequences. Megan's head is used to complete Dr. Hill's eerie bride, and all the comedy replays the same serious questions that Mary Shelley's story raised a long time before. Is challenging the divine power of creation within man's capacity? What does the creator owe to one brought into existence. West refers to his creations as useless bits of tissue, but it is clear that they are not. The mixture of ethics and frantic humor is surprisingly engaging, and this film is almost as good as Re-animator. Take a look if you're in the mood for something strange.

    5 out of 5 stars Budget Edition( Read: Minimal Extras).......2005-09-23

    Whilst this DVD looks like it is a direct transfer from a Vestron Video tape, with new credits for some of the recent companies( Vestron went bust, I heard), the DVD is a decent watch, and has everything I loved and vaguely remember.
    Unless there is something done in the recovered edition that I am unaware of for REANIMATOR, West is NOT killed, and Megan Halsey is not saved ... Megan most definitely dies, and she may be reanimated, but then it is conceivable that someone had dismembered her in death if her reanimation was partial( especially since Megan's heart is separated, but it may be a convenient plot point, however... WHO CARES ?? ). What is really aggravating about this budget disc, is that the extras are clearly available, but if you check out the other disc reference for BRIDE OF, the prices are outrageous ... especially when REANIMATOR MILLENNIUM EDITION has a bundle of goodies with it, and is virtually the same or comparable price as the minimalist BRIDE OF REANIMATOR.
    The FX are great. Screaming Mad George, and the other FX people do a superb job, even with the over the top Bat winged head of Dr Hill . The elements are virtually seemless.
    For the nature of the story, it is quite a decent piece of work.
    At worst it is a very fun popcorn film, at best, it is a fun horror-comedy that has "Dr West" spouting many dead-pan and funny lines that totally work with an actor like Jeffrey Coombs.
    The So-called Nudity is extremely minimal; the gore is not excessive, and is always in context ( what do you expect when an arterial line is severed????), and basically it works.
    It's not as good as the original, nor BEYOND, but it is a great fun piece... or pieces, and dare I say, a cut above the rest that gets under your skin :-)

    4 out of 5 stars "This is not just about re-animating the dead anymore. We can create new life!".......2005-07-18

    I Love the Re-Animator films simply because of the hidden element of humor they contain. We try not to laugh at some of the cheesy zombie moments because we want to stay in a serious frame of mind but it's hardly possible when the zombies begin making one-liners and it becomes horribly noticeable that Herbert West is extremely dumb for a smart person. (I hope that makes since.) This movie takes place months after the Miskatonic Massacre in Arkham Massachusetts. West and Dan Cain are taking advantage of their new surrounding in a civil war in South America. Being doctor gives them access to all the dead bodies, fresh subjects, that can be used in their re-animation experiments. When things get bad, West and Cain pack up their bags and head back to Arkham. Here they become doctors at the local hospital, yet again very fortunate. This is where things begin to take off. West is stealing body parts and trying to get Dan to help him create a sort of Frankenstein monster. The real kicker is that the heart used for the gruesome experiment is the heart of Dan's deceased lover Meg. Unknowingly another doctor at the morgue, whom found a bottle of West's re-agent the night of the massacre, once again re-animates Dr. Hill from the first film. Hill wants revenge on West and in the final climax of the film when West and Cain's Frankenstein creation is born, Hill arrives to "crash" the party. This film is rather entertaining and extremely good for gore lovers. The only thing i wasn't so fond of at first is the fact that in the last movie they were struggling just to re-animate corpses and in this film they've actually made the transition of life creating. That would be cool but in the next film in the series West is pretty much back to Re-animation rather than recreation. So i'm gathering he didn't find his previous exploits successful. And is it just me or does Herbert West die at the end of each movie? If he's dead, how's there a sequel? They've worn this gimmick out. But rest assure Re-Animator fans, how much longer can it be until Jeffrey Combs dons the glasses and picks up the needle again? A sequel is long over due.
    Charlie Rose with Alan Parker, Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet & Laura Linney; Ralph Fiennes & David Cronenberg (February 17, 2003)
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      Charlie Rose with Alan Parker, Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet & Laura Linney; Ralph Fiennes & David Cronenberg (February 17, 2003)

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      ASIN: B000HBL3GC
      Release Date: 2006-08-15

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      A discussion of the movie The Life of David Gale, with director Sir Alan Parker and actors Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, and Laura Linney. Then, actor Ralph Fiennes and director David Cronenberg talk about their work on the film Spider.
      The Life of David Gale [Region 2]
      Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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      ASIN: B000087JHM

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      Kevin Spacey (American Beauty) plays David Gale, a brilliant but hard-drinking anti-death penalty crusader on death row for a rape and murder that he claims he didn't commit. The victim of the crime is Gale's close friend and anti-death penalty colleague (Laura Linney, You Can Count On Me), so Gale argues that he's been set up to discredit the cause. Committed journalist Bitsey Bloom (Kate Winslet, Titanic) takes it upon herself to figure the whole thing out--and so we follow her through a ridiculous plot full of supposedly shocking twists that are telegraphed far in advance and make very little sense when they arrive. The overwritten script tries to cover too many hot-button issues and gives Spacey way too many showy scenes where he gets to be passionate and caring, which is creepier than his psychopath roles in The Usual Suspects and Seven. --Bret Fetzer

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      3 out of 5 stars Something Was Missing.......2007-03-22

      I don't know quite how to put it. The Life of David Gale is certainly a message film sprinkled with suspense, but the ending left me bewildered. Why did the murder suspect mail Bitsey a second tape that showed David Gale involved with the suicide? Other questions I raise are: What motive did Berlin have for charging Gale with rape? Why did Gale's wife and son flee to Italy or was it Spain? Is Gale's situation so hopeless that he decides to die for the cause? Gale and the murder suspect didn't seem to have a strong bond of friendship, yet what would compel the murder suspect to travel to Europe with a suitcase of money and make sure that Gale's wife receives it? Does anyone have any answers? The film is complex with its layers of left wing politics, morality plays, and Hitchcockian twists, but still comes up short. A classic film that contrasts innocence with guilt without the death penalty issue is The Wrong Man starring Henry Fonda.

      5 out of 5 stars One of the great undiscovered flicks........2007-03-21

      Just one of those great movies that didnt get the recognition that it deserved. Of course, Kevin Spacey is one of the best actors of his time in my opinion, but overall this movie is a must see.

      4 out of 5 stars Worth watching.......2007-02-10

      This was a film of two intentions - a thriller, and a message movie. It is a worthy intention to put the message into some context as a thriller to make it palatable; it makes the medicine easier to swallow. However the film is beset by a problem of balance .. Where the thriller slacks off, the message seems too in your face, and where the thriller takes off it seems too shallow for want of the message.
      Alan Parker handled the balance so much better in Mississippi Burning, that if you came to this expecting the same standard you would be very disappointed.
      However, the cast do adequately, and Spacey and Linney do brilliantly, adding the depth that makes the film engrossing enough to enjoy watching.
      Those who are expecting the film to hold its own as a thriller will be disappointed however.

      5 out of 5 stars very good.......2007-01-23

      This movie is well written and the acting is great. Yet Again, Kevin Spacey gives a great performance. His job being a drunk philosphy prof. walking down the street loudly lecturing people as they happen to walk by is simply brillant. Kate Winslet is very convincing as a sympathic journalist. The writing is original and thoughtful. It has a great premise with a even greater and suprising ending. I was pleasantly suprised by this movie.

      3 out of 5 stars Relatively Disappointing Considering The People Involved.......2006-09-12

      The Life of David Gale is an attempted morality play on the subject of the death penalty in America today. Its title character, a former Texas college professor and anti-death penalty activist, David Gale, stands convicted of murdering his friend, played by Laura Linney, and is down to the final days of his existence on this earth. His downwardly-spiraling life story, from arrogant leftist intellectual to condemned inmate, is told in flashback form via the exploration of the case by an idealistic young reporter, Bitsy Bloom, who believes in Gale's innocence and desperately seeks to prove it before it is too late. With the talent Alan Parker had here this should have been a great film, but the plot was dense and the characters one and all with the exception of Kate Winslet's naively duped reporter, Bitsy, were so disturbed and disturbing that I didn't like them. This is a bleak motion picture that seems padded out to the point of it being obvious this was a one message story. I honestly think the writers had just a single firm notion here, that being how they wished to end The Life of David Gale with its admittedly powerful twist, and the remainder of the run-time was hasty-concocted filler.

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      1. Jean-Luc Godard Collection (Breathless / Le Petit Soldat / Les Carabiniers)
      2. Head in the Clouds
      3. Graffiti Bridge
      4. Freefall Flight 174
      5. Jerry Maguire (Special Edition)
      6. Pinero
      7. Decasia: The State of Decay - A Film by Bill Morrison
      8. The Public Enemy
      9. Rhapsody
      10. Mona Lisa - Criterion Collection

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      Smack

      Freeway Speedway, Vol. 5: Megolopolis Express Way Trail

      Fled [1996]

      DVD: The Crawling Hand

      Die Isar - Von der Quelle bis zur Mündung