Movie Info

In 1996, Sharon Stone put a little grit into her glamorous image by playing a suspicious, snarling death row inmate caught up in the politics of the ...(read more...) death penalty. Director Bruce Beresford tackled a similar drama in his uncompromising Breaker Morant, but here he's stuck with a script that favors the tepid story of her ne'er-do-well clemency lawyer (Rob Morrow), whose dormant conscience awakens as he champions her case. It's a well-meaning effort undercut by sentimentality (Beresford gives in to the impulse to find the sweet puppy dog behind Stone's feral street-mutt exterior) and the bad luck to come after the similarly themed but superior Dead Man Walking. Give Stone credit for the passion and conviction to make you care anyway. --Sean Axmaker

Director: Bruce Beresford

MPAA: R

Running Time: 103 min.

Release Date: May 03, 1996

Cast: Diane Sellers, Don Harvey, Jack Thompson, Jayne Brook, Patricia French, Peter Gallagher, Randy Quaid, Rob Morrow, Sharon Stone, Skeet Ulrich