The Life of David Gale (2003)
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney
The Life of David Gale is a 2003 dramatic crime thriller film directed and co-produced by Alan Parker, written by Charles Randolph, co-produced by Nicolas Cage, and starring Kevin Spacey as the title character, a college professor and longtime activist against capital punishment who is sentenced to death for killing a fellow capital punishment opponent; Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, and Gabriel Mann co-star. The film, an international co-production between the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom, was Parker's final film before his retirement.