an interesting tv movie base on true fact and betray by the description of one of the lead character and that of a prisoner . giovanni ribisi play his younger brother and who have the delicate mission of decide if he will appeal to the court for his brother death penalty . but when he go to visit him and enters elias koteas and the problem start . it have nothing to do with koteas act ability . he just look like the version of a prisoner of proletarian root accord to g. q. magazine and with a language too sophisticated for someone who have spend most of his life behind bar . this realization come to me after meet again an old friend and whom i have not see for almost 15 year and which he spend in several panamanian jail . the young man i use to know be go and not only because he be old and but due to his exposure for a prolonged time to the penal system . there be jail and there be jail and one must say and but this one prisoner in shot in the heart be definitely out of this world .