Steve Everett, Oakland Tribune journalist with a passion for women and alcohol, is given the coverage of the upcoming execution of murderer Frank Beachum. His attractive colleague Michelle died in a car accident the night before. Bob Findley, Steve's boss and husband to Steve's current affair, wants him dead and gone as soon as possible. When Steve stumbles across the possibility of Frank Beachum being innocently on death row, Bob feels his time to have come. Now Steve only has a few hours left to prove the innocence of Frank and to be right with this theory, as he definitely will be history if he's not.
Written by Julian Reischl <julianreischl@mac.com>
Denis Leary stated that he had never watched this movie, believing that his head would explode if he saw himself acting in a scene next to Clint Eastwood.
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Goofs
Factual errors:
California does not use a machine to administer the drugs used to conduct lethal injections. Rather, it is done manually.
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Quotes
Steve Everett:
[driving to the Governor's mansion, to try and get a last-minute reprieve for a condemned man]
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