NBC
Directed by Lawrence Schiller
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(YouTube)
Tommy Lee Jones tries to adjust to real life after a long stint in prison. He eventually gets involved with the much younger Rosanna Arquette. He controls every aspect of her life and goes over the edge when she threatens to leave him. A night of senseless violence leads him back in jail where he is convicted and given the death sentence. The execution goes through endless delays as it winds its way through the courts. Jones is electric as the disturbed killer unable to cope with the world outside of prison with great chemistry with Arquette. However, Norman Mailer's screenplay just goes on and on (in the original 3-hour version), getting lost in the last hour or so it spends while Jones awaits his execution.
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