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Article: Glover, Blades outshine trite `Dead Man' climax
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 10, 1989
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Dead Man Out
(STAR) (STAR) 1/2
Alex Danny Glover
BenRuben Blades
HBO presents a made-for-cable movie directed by Richard Pearce with
a screenplay by Ron Hutchinson. It will debut from 9 to 10:30 p.m.
Sunday over local cable systems.
It is the function of law to bring order to a society that would
otherwise succumb to absurd chaos. But sometimes the law itself can
be chaotically absurd, especially when it comes to the application of
the death penalty.
For example, should a condemned man be executed if he is insane?
And if he is insane, should he be treated so that he can then be
executed? And in the final analysis, what difference does it make?
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