Susan Sarandon
Sister Helen Prejean
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Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American crime drama film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, and co-produced and directed by Tim Robbins, who adapted the screenplay from the 1993 non-fiction book of the same name.
Feb 2, 1996 · Dead Man Walking: Directed by Tim Robbins. With Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky, Raymond J. Barry. A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.
Synopsis. A public housing project in New Orleans, LA. Kids are playing, running, jumping rope. Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) walks through the complex and enters Hope House, a Christian community outreach center.
Jan 12, 1996 · 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.
Dead Man Walking wants to present a complex portrayal of capital punishment built around two main characters - convicted killer and rapist Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn) and the plainclothes...
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