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- Dead Man Walking has great performances, relevant messages about life and controversial topics like the death penalty, and a fine story. However, the movie can be overly sentimental at times, plus it could've been cut a good 10 minutes. Nonetheless, it's worth a watch.
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The inmate, named Matthew Poncelet ( Sean Penn ), has been convicted, along with another man, of participating in the rape and murder of two young people on a lovers' lane. We see him first through the grating of a visitor's pen, so that his face breaks into jigsawlike pieces.
95% Tomatometer 61 Reviews 86% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings As death row inmate Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn) nears his execution date, he calls upon Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) to...
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Sep 27, 2023 · Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato shines in Jake Heggie’s operatic adaptation of Sister Helen Prejean’s best-selling memoir. Review by Michael Andor Brodeur. September 27, 2023 at 3:55 p.m. EDT.
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Sep 27, 2023 · “Dead Man Walking,” which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s season on Tuesday, is about a man trying to put off his execution. And with this show, the Met is doing its best to avoid a fatal ...
Oct 3, 2023 · ‘Dead Man Walking’ Review: A Death-Row Drama at the Metropolitan Opera. With Ivo van Hove’s new staging of Jake Heggie’s opera about Sister Helen Prejean’s role as an adviser to a man condemned...
Tim Robbins's 'Dead Man Walking' is a brave piece of cinema. Though the film is about a man on death row and a nun's struggle to help him, I liked how he presented both sides of the central theme of capital punishment.
Feb 2, 1996 · Review. "Dead Man Walking" deals with one nun's struggle (Susan Sarandon in her Oscar-winning part) to help a convicted death row inmate (Sean Penn in an Oscar-nominated role) come to terms with his imminent execution.
