The Life of David Gale opens with a car overheating ... but it's rather more information than we need. For sympathy, Gale turns to Constance Harraway (Laura Linney), his campus friend and fellow ...

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. What she finds ...