If you loved Angela's Ashes, try The Life of David Gale
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Alan Parker, and they both carry the gut punch mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Angela's Ashes, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
gut punch
What The Life of David Gale is
Texas death row, a cold winter morning, a reporter's tape recorder. A professor's life unravels, a woman's murder, a death sentence looms. Parker probes the complexities of a flawed idealist.

