from Warner Brothers
Directed by
Clint
Eastwood
Starring
Clint
Eastwood (Steve Everett)
Isaiah Washington (Frank Beachum)
James
Woods (Alan Mann)
Denis
Leary
Mary McCormack
Sydney
Poitier
Diane Venora
Frances Fisher
Lisa Gay Hamilton (Bonnie Beachum)
Bernard Hill (Luther Plunkitt)
Michael Jeter
Written by
Stephen Schiff
Andrew
Klavan (novel) |
A young St. Louis reporter is to interview Frank Beachum
(Isaiah Washington) --sentenced to death for murdering a pregnant
grocery store clerk--on his last day alive. Then a freak automobile
accident sidelines the rookie, and renegade journalist Steve
Everett (Clint Eastwood) gets the assignment. Everett begins
researching the case and, as the hours wind down toward Beachum's
midnight execution, becomes convinced the man is innocent. Is
there enough time to save the convict, especially since Everett's
prime suspect is now dead? Even if Everett can prove Beachum's
innocence, does he have enough clout to stop the execution? By
the time Everett ties all the pieces together, he's drunk (the
result of a subplot concerning his troubled marriage) but must
take a madcap auto trip to beat the clock. |