Product Details

• Actors: Kyle Bergersen, Jonathan Tucker
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: IMAGE/THINKFILMS
• DVD Release Date: July 27, 2006
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FJGR76
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,683 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Love Comes To The Executioner" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

When Death Is Your Job...Never Love Your Work.Fresh out of college and desperate for work Heck takes a job as a "Closer" at the local jail which happens to house his estranged brother Chick on Death Row for murder. It isn't until Heck falls for Chick's ex-girlfriend also on Death Row that he realizes he is actually the Executioner! Perhaps he isn't so different from Chick. After all the only way he gets the girl is if someone winds up dead!System Requirements:Running Time: 97 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 821575549158 Manufacturer No: VL-54915

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Really Twisted Dark Comedy (In A Good Way), May 15, 2006

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Rusty (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love Comes To The Executioner (DVD)

I saw this at SXSW, last year and just found out it's available. Very sick and funny!

Essentially, the hero just graduated from college with a degree in Classical Languages. He wants to teach high school Latin but ends up being a prison executioner in the small town where he grew up.

Complicating matters, his big brother's on death row (for trying to kill him) and so is his brother's ex-girlfriend. Creating a uniquely hilarious love triangle.

I found out that the lead, Jonathan Tucker, actually took Latin in high school. Making his scenes trying to teach Latin to the prisoners even funnier.

If you like Monty Python, Harold and Maude and Grosse Point Blank, you'll like this.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Film Noir: A Dark Comedy with Some Major Statements to Make, January 2, 2008

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Love Comes To The Executioner (DVD)

Kyle Bergersen wrote and directed this very strange comedic film noir, a movie that didn't get a lot of attention in its theatrical release but that is gaining a following in the DVD format. It is smart, clever, weird, and very well made. Bergersen has the ability to take a rather silly story to reveal a lot of important questions about education, capital punishment, prison life, and the delicate balance between humanity and inhumanity! LOVE COMES TO THE EXECUTIONER works.

Heck Prigusivac (Jonathan Tucker) is a fresh graduate form college, having majored in Latin and Romance Languages, who returns to his small hometown where his ditsy alcoholic mother Miriam (Christine Ebersole) struggles with her addiction and with the fact that her son Chick (Jeremy Renner) sits on Death Row in the neighboring prison. Heck lands a job teaching Latin to the inmates, but with the proviso that he also accept the job as Closer (or Executioner). Heck adjusts to the strange situation and manages to learn the trade of capital punishment by lethal injection. He confronts his estranged brother Chick on death row and the two have word battles about their relationship AND the fact that Chick's ex-girlfriend Dori Dumchovic (Ginnifer Goodwin) is the first female to sit on death row a few cells down form Chick. Heck and Dori flirt and Heck 'falls' for Dori, actually impregnating her in the confines of the prison. Heck manages to become a popular Latin teacher with the inmates, but has some psychological stress as the Closer - especially as the time for Heck to execute Dori approaches. Through a clever trick that backfires, Heck agrees to help Dori escape the prison so that the two can raise their 'child', but Chick's streetwise abilities alter the plan, and love doesn't exactly stay around for the executioner!

Tucker, Renner, and Goodwin play the script straight and manage to draw us into their individual plights and dilemmas. The cinematography by Jimmy Lindsey keeps this 'interior' film exciting, even during the rather gross execution scenes. It is a strange way to present anti-capital punishment information, along side the death of the teaching of Latin and the Romance languages as markers for civility, that makes this film worth watching. It is a notch above the similar stories that dumb down the audience. Grady Harp, January 08

5.0 out of 5 stars Great product, January 19, 2011

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Angelique - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Love Comes To The Executioner (DVD)

The DVD was in great condition, brand new, wrapped in plastic. I received it within a week or so of ordering with regular mail, after the holidays.