Dead Man Walking R

Dead Man Walking
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 7, 1999
  • Originally Released: 1995
  • Label: MGM (Video & DVD)

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring &
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Directed by
Composition by
Director of Photography:

Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1995 - Best Actress: Susan Sarandon

Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh95%

TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 61

Upright85%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 61,826
It's a strong film, made stronger by two terrific performances. Penn's acting has ruthless honesty. Full Review
Newsweek
Feb 22, 2018
A powerful and provocative film -- not quite a work of art, maybe, but close enough to demand your respectful attention. Full Review
The Moving Picture Show
Jul 19, 2014
...A genuine sense of consolation....Profoundly moving....Sarandon has never been better...and Penn gives by far his finest performance to date...
Sight and Sound
Apr 1, 1996
...Prodigious performances in an unsparing movie....Acting doesn't get much better than this...
Rolling Stone
Dec 28, 1995
...[A] moving portrait....Refreshingly de-exoticized...
Premiere
Dec 1, 1995
Rating: 4/5 -- Takes us along on the reluctant, difficult, essentially spiritual journey these two unlikely people make together. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Feb 13, 2001
Penn and Sarandon in their final moments together achieve a strange transcendence that makes the end of Dead Man Walking sobering and horrifying, yet oddly uplifting. Full Review
Hartford Courant
May 3, 2018

Product Description:

This acclaimed film traces the relationship between a death-row inmate and the local nun to whom he turns for spiritual guidance in the days leading up to his scheduled execution. Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn) has been convicted of the rape and murder of two young lovers and is awaiting execution. Susan Sarandon plays Sister Helen Prejean, a nun who has devoted herself to God and to helping the less fortunate. Prejean faces a moral crisis as she tries to reconcile her anti-death penalty views with the truth of Poncelet's actions and the pain felt by the victim's families.

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Product Info

  • Sales Rank: 125,067
  • UPC: 027616784926
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
  • International Shipping: 1 item

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