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Death and Texas
  • Release Date: Nov 3, 2006
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  • Summary: In 1994, Barefoot Bobby Briggs (Harris) was arrested for his role in a botched armed robbery of an Austin convenience store. When he was convicted and sentenced to die, the career of one of the greatest wide receivers in the history of pro football was ended. Documentary style, Death & Texas looks at life in the Texas correctional system, peeks behind the scenes of pro-football, the legal system, and a crusader determined to make a difference.… Expand

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  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
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    Audiences won't show much clemency toward Death & Texas, an uneasy (and very unfunny) marriage of sports culture satire and death penalty polemic.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    40
    While it would like to be nimble, light-footed satire, too often Death and Texas stumbles on its own earnestness, wearing cement shoes when it should be tap-dancing.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    40
    In DiNovis' butterfingery hands, the movie tumbles into a pedantic anti-death-penalty rant that's about as funny as a firing squad.

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