The Executioner's Song (film) The Executioner's Song (film) The Executioner's Song is a 1982 made-for-television film adaptation of Norman Mailer's 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The film is directed by Lawrence Schiller from a screenplay by Mailer. The movie is about the final nine months of the life of Gary Gilmore, beginning with his release from prison at the age of 35 after serving 12 years for robbery in Indiana. He is allowed to fly to Utah to live with Brenda Nicol, a distant cousin who was close to him and agrees to sponsor him. She tries to help him get
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist the film. Kevin Thomas of the "Los Angeles Times" and Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" praised the film for its careful portrayal of Flanagan's struggles and his relationship with Rose. "The San Francisco Chronicle"'s Edward Guthmann said the film, "does a remarkable thing in presenting extreme, sometimes revolting material and simultaneously making us like and admire Flanagan. True, he was a madman and exhibitionist; but he was also a gifted writer who was committed to taking risks, confronting death and living life on his own terms." Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist Sick: The Life and