La cámara

Título original: The Chamber

1996
R
1h 53min

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Gene Hackman and Chris O'Donnell in La cámara (1996)

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Legal Thriller Crime Drama Thriller

Un joven recién salido de la facultad de derecho intenta obtener un indulto para su abuelo racista, que está en el corredor de la muerte.Un joven recién salido de la facultad de derecho intenta obtener un indulto para su abuelo racista, que está en el corredor de la muerte.Un joven recién salido de la facultad de derecho intenta obtener un indulto para su abuelo racista, que está en el corredor de la muerte.

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5/10

racist Gene Hackman great

Sam Cayhall (Gene Hackman) is set to be executed for a bombing thirty years ago in Mississippi that killed two Jewish boys. His grandson Adam (Chris O'Donnell) has been avoiding the hateful legacy of his Klan grandfather. The young lawyer takes on the case. His investigation reveals that others were involved and he struggles to stop the execution.

Gene Hackman is a great racist but his character is irredeemable. Chris O'Donnell has his boyish looks but I don't sense the substance. Faye Dunaway is simply horrible in this one. The story is flat. The legal thriller is ultimately meaningless. Other than Hackman, this movie doesn't have much.

Trivia
The story of the freakish execution that Sam tells Adam, about a condemned prisoner beating his head against a metal pole inside the gas chamber, is a true story. It happened to Mississippian Jimmy Lee Gray in 1983.

Errores
Sam Cahall states that the new law allowing him to opt for lethal injection applied only to inmates convicted after 1984. Actually it was just the opposite: Those convicted after 1984 could only have lethal injection. Before 1984 convicts could choose between lethal injection and the gas chamber.

Citas
E. Garner Goodman: How much do you know about the death penalty?
Adam Hall: I've read everything there is.
E. Garner Goodman: Then you know nothing.

Conexiones
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: That Thing You Do!/Bound/Michael Collins/Infinity/If These Walls Could Talk (1996)

Bandas sonoras
Temenos (Here Come The Shakes)
Written by Shelby Tate
Performed by Remy Zero
Courtesy of DGC Records
By Arrangement with MCA Special Markets & Products