Dead Man Walking (1995)
Genre: Crime / Drama
Duration: 122 minuten
Country:
United States / United Kingdom
Directed by: Tim Robbins
Stars: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn and Raymond J. Barry
IMDb score:
7,5 (108.642)
Releasedate: 29 December 1995
Dead Man Walking plot
Matthew Poncelet awaits his execution in New Orleans Angola Prison. He denies his part in the rape and murder of two young teenagers. Matthew claims that his friend killed the couple making love. The nun Helen Prejean accepts his request for spiritual assistance and prepares Matthew for his impending execution. The community and relatives react with incomprehension and anger to her help to the criminal.
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Actors and actresses
Sister Helen Prejean
Matthew Poncelet
Hilton Barber
Earl Delacroix
Clyde Percy
Mary Beth Percy
Helen's Mother
Chaplain Farley
Lucille Poncelet
Sister Colleen
Reviews & comments
eempag
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- 449 messages
- 382 votes
Wow, what a story, what a movie and what a chillingly good actors Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon.
The coldness and matter-of-factness of the execution procedure is well portrayed, at least I think it will be.
Also wonderful music.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
A strong film by Tim Robbins who is not ready for his test with this prison film, although the approach is of a completely different nature than The Shawshank redemption of course. The death penalty as a theme is central here and that is in any case a socially sensitive theme. Yet Robbins does not want to take sides and tries to present the film as objectively and neutrally as possible. It is nice to note that he highlights both versions, both sides. Yet his view leans toward the abolition of the death penalty, and that's an opinion I share and appreciate (but this aside). The emotions of the perpetrator and the victims are both explained. And sometimes this is disappointing for the sometimes very naive nun Helen. So much so that her own environment (the children) is difficult to keep track of with her visits to the racist murderer. I found the conversations with the parents of the teenagers very touching.
Penn portrays very well the death row inmate Matthew Poncelet. The character even reminded me a bit of Derek (Edward Norton from American History X) with Poncelet also hating blacks and glorifying Nazis. I thought the short flashbacks of the crime were well processed in the film and give a certain panache and break through the sometimes slightly too religious approach of the film.
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W.V.
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- 845 messages
- 476 votes
Anyway Dead Man Walking (what a terrible text) Here Walks a Dead Man is well worth checking out if you like character roles. Top notch in its genre.
It seems that this is shouted when a death row inmate is led to the place of execution, but that can of course be a fabrication to make things a bit more dramed, if the death penalty isn't dramatic enough already.
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