A film shown in two-parts. Starring
Tommy Lee Jones Christine Lahti
One summer evening in 1976, Gary Gilmore shot dead a petrol station attendant. The next night he killed the manager of a motel. From his prison cell in Utah he demanded to be executed by firing squad.
1: April 1976: 35-year-old
Gary Gilmore is released on parole from federal prison in Illinois and joins his cousin Brenda Nicol in Provo,
Utah. After a spell working for his uncle Vem Damico , he changes jobs and meets Nicole Baker , an attractive 19-year-old mother of two. Falling in love, they begin a tempestuous relationship that leads to impossible tensions on both sides.
Screenplay by Norman Mailer , based on his book Producer/Director Lawrence Schiller (Part 2 next week)
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