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3 May 1996 (USA)
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Sometimes justice is a crime
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Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a...
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Maksim & Karina’s Last Dance?
(From People.com - TV Watch. 10 September 2009, 12:58 PM, PDT)
Last Dance For Clive's Ego
(From New York Post. 11 January 2009, 11:53 PM, PST)
(From People.com - TV Watch. 10 September 2009, 12:58 PM, PDT)
Last Dance For Clive's Ego
(From New York Post. 11 January 2009, 11:53 PM, PST)
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Sharon Stone | ... | Cindy Liggett | |
| Rob Morrow | ... | Rick Hayes | |
| Randy Quaid | ... | Sam Burns | |
| Peter Gallagher | ... | John Hayes | |
| Jack Thompson | ... | The Governor | |
| Jayne Brook | ... | Jill | |
| Pamala Tyson | ... | Linda, Legal Aid Attorney | |
| Skeet Ulrich | ... | Billy, Cindy's Brother | |
| Don Harvey | ... | Doug | |
| Diane Sellers | ... | Inmate Reggie | |
| Patricia French | ... | Guard Frances | |
| Jeffrey Buckner Ford | ... | D.A. Rusk (as Jeffrey Ford) | |
| Dave Hager | ... | Detective Vollo | |
| Christine Cattell | ... | Louise | |
| Peg Allen | ... | Helen |
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Rated R for violence, language and some drug content.
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103 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Germany:12 |
USA:R (certificate #34101) |
South Korea:18 |
Philippines:R-18 |
Australia:MA |
Denmark:16 |
Finland:K-16 |
Netherlands:16 (video premiere) |
Portugal:M/16 |
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Featured in Sharon Stone - Una mujer de 100 caras (1998) (TV)
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DRIVE ME HOME
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I just saw this recently, and found it interesting that the details of the case in it follow quite closely those of the controversial execution of Karla Faye Tucker Brown. Karla committed a double murder much like that portrayed in the film, and, like the film's Cindy Liggett, reformed her life in prison. Also like Liggett, she was a fairly attractive, articulate woman who argued eloquently, though futilely, for clemency. Unlike Liggett, however, Karla became a born-again Christian, and her clemency plea was supported by several prominent pastors including Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. It is thus notable that the governor who signed her death warrant was none other than our current, allegedly born-again President, George W. Bush. It is possible that nothing in Bush's checkered career reveals his true character more clearly than his callous, smirking mockery of Karla's dignified plea for her life during an interview with Talk Magazine the year after her execution.
Incidentally, Karla Faye Tucker Brown was killed by the state of Texas in 1998, two years after this film came out. That suggests that the filmmakers might have been trying to to make an argument for clemency, as Errol Morris did for Randall Adams with his documentary "The Thin Blue Line." If so, it failed miserably.