The Executioner's Song
“The story of two people who fell in love.....and kept on falling.”
In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. As their relationship quickly deteriorates, Gary goes on a murderous rampage, leaving two dead. During his trial, he demands capital punishment; a media circus ensues and outsiders look to profit from his story.
A stark, unflinching look at a man's descent into violence and his morbid fascination with his own demise. It feels like a grim, inevitable march towards oblivion, amplified by the media's insatiable hunger for a sensational spectacle.
