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Release Date: 01 January, 2000 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $10.99 You SAVE: $3.99! Cast: Complete Cast (15 total) |
Dead Man Walking Reviews
Morality Play About a Desperate Man
Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) is working to improve the lives of the poor in New Orleans. She receives a request to visit a prisoner on death row. Her compassionate nature makes her visit the man.
When she meets Matthew Poncellete (Sean Penn), he is a humble man who is desperate to have some one help him out. But the man she met is not the man who committed the crimes or is his humility just an act? Through the movie she finds out it's a little of both.
When she attends an appeal hearing, she meets the parents of the two kids he killed and realizes that there are two sides to every story. These parents are still feeling the pain and cannot understand why she is giving the killer any sympathy. She realizes that to understand Matthew, she needs to understand the crime. She meets with both sets of parents to understand their pain. These are very effective scenes.
In the end, Matthew comes to term with his fate and Sister brings him together with his family.
Tim Robbins once again proves that he knows how to direct a film. This film is definitely an actors' film. His wife Sarandon wins an Oscar for her textured performance. Sean Penn finally starts to show what he is capable of and receives his first Oscar nomination. But it is Robbins' casting of the supporting players that makes the film great. Stage star Roberta Maxwell is compelling as Poncellete's mother. While Celia Weston was best know for her TV role on Alice, proves that she can manipulate an audience as on the victim's mother. And look for Jack Black in a very subdued performance - it would be nice if he repeated this more often.
This is definitely an anti-death penalty film but it does show that there are two points of view to every controversy.
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Commentary by Tim Robbins
capital punishment bad! compassionate nun good! yawn.
capital punishment bad! compassionate nun good! yawn.
furthermore: capital punishment bad! compassionate nun good! yawn.
moreover: capital punishment bad! compassionate nun good! yawn.
i reiterate: capital punishment bad! compassionate nun good! yawn.
and in conclusion: capital punishment bad! compassionate nun good! yawn.
respectfully submitted,
fletcher
p.s. capital punishment bad! compassionate nun good! yawn.
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