The Dying Gaul
The Dying Gaul

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- 64/100 based on 2,463 votes
  • Released: 2005
  • Runtime: 95 mins
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  • Studio: Holedigger Films
  • Genres: Drama

The gay screenwriter Robert, who is grieving the recent loss of his lover, writes a screenplay based on his biography and tries to sell it to the Hollywood producer Jeffrey. He offers one million dollars for his work, provided changes in the story replacing the dying man per a woman to make a commercial film. Jeffrey shows the screenplay to his wife Elaine, who loves to write and to plant flowers, and she is also delighted with the story. Robert works introducing the required... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Dying Gaul:

Peter Sarsgaard
Patricia Clarkson
Campbell Scott
Ryan Miller
Faith Jefferies
Robin Bartlett

Full Plot Details

The gay screenwriter Robert, who is grieving the recent loss of his lover, writes a screenplay based on his biography and tries to sell it to the Hollywood producer Jeffrey. He offers one million dollars for his work, provided changes in the story replacing the dying man per a woman to make a commercial film. Jeffrey shows the screenplay to his wife Elaine, who loves to write and to plant flowers, and she is also delighted with the story. Robert works introducing the required modifications and Jeffrey, who is bisexual, has an affair with him. Meanwhile Elaine finds the gay website where Robert writes and she creates a fake profile to have conversation with him pretending that she is his deceased lover. Soon she learns the affair of her husband and she decides to leave him. But when the gay Robert discovers the truth, he has a breakdown and takes vengeance for Elaine with tragic consequences.

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EmanuelLevy.Com - 9/10 by Emanuel LevyWriter Lucas (Longtime Companion) makes a disapointing directing debut with an overbaked, preposterously plotted noir thriller whose only novelty is a bisexual man
Cinerina - 9/10 by Karina MontgomeryVerbally well-matched, morally ambiguously fascinating together, they are exciting to watch.* All three leads give extraordinary performances.
Washington Post - 9/10 by Ann HornadayA small, self-contained gem of incisive writing, superb acting and rich, expressive visuals.
New York Times - 8/10 by Stephen HoldenMr. Sarsgaard gives the riskiest screen performance of his career. Save perhaps for Sean Penn's outbursts in "Dead Man Walking" and "Mystic River," no actor in a recent American film has delivered as explosive a depiction of a man emotionally blasted apart.
Slate - 8/10 by David EdelsteinI'm not going to spell out the collateral damage, but I found the ending cheap, contrived, and genuinely disgusting.
San Francisco Chronicle - 8/10 by Mick LaSalleThe Dying Gaul has the best kind of story in that it unfolds as a series of surprises, and yet every step, twist and turn seems inevitable in retrospect.
Dallas Morning News - 8/10 by Chris VognarThe film plays for keeps: It hurts and it doesn't back away from messy questions about art, commerce and conscience.
Zap2it.com - 8/10 by Hanh NguyenCampbell Scott, Peter Sarsgaard and Patricia Clarkson fill the disconcerting material with measured, subtle performances that bring home what's not being said.
Rolling Stone - 8/10 by Peter TraversThe actors could not be better. Sarsgaard, Scott and the luminous Clarkson negotiate the film's razor-sharp laughs and bone-deep tragedy with resonant skill. Lucas' powerfully haunting film gets under your skin.
Compuserve - 8/10 by Harvey S. KartenStagey, but an original story about a producer and a screenwriter whose relationship is not entirely professional.

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