Dead Man Walking

1995
15
2h 2m

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7.5/10

104K

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Legal Drama Serial Killer True Crime Crime Drama

A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.

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IMDb RATING

7.5/10

104K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

3,922

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Won 1 Oscar
- 23 wins & 25 nominations total

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Trivia
Helen Prejean: The real Sister Helen appears outside the prison during a candlelight vigil scene.

Goofs
The chemicals used in lethal injections in Louisiana are administered manually, not by a machine as in the movie.

Quotes
Prison Guard: Tell me something, Sister. What is a nun doing in a place like this? Shouldn't you be teaching children? Do you know what this man has done? How he killed them kids?
Sister Helen Prejean: What he was involved with was evil. I don't condone it. I just don't see the sense of killing people to say killing people's wrong.
Prison Guard: You know how the Bible says "an eye for an eye."
Sister Helen Prejean: You know what else the Bible asks for? Death as a punishment for adultery, prostitution, homosexuality, trespass upon sacred ground, profaning the Sabbath, and contempt of parents.
Prison Guard: I ain't gonna get into no Bible quoting with no nun, 'cause I'm gonna lose.

Crazy credits
In the heart-shaped symbol at the end of the credits, the initials EMLA, JHR, MGR, and SS stand for Tim Robbins' family with Susan Sarandon (SS) -- Jack Henry Robbins and Miles Guthrie Robbins (their two sons together) and Eva Maria Livia Amurri (Sarandon's daughter with Franco Amurri).

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Nixon/Jumanji/Heat/Mr. Holland's Opus/Sense and Sensibility/Othello (1995)

Soundtracks
The Face of Love
Performed by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with Eddie Vedder
Written by David Robbins, Tim Robbins & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan courtesy of Real World Records, Ltd.
Eddie Vedder courtesy of Epic Records

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Featured review

Excellent movie, you should see it!

This is a very touching story of a man in a death row. I certainly didn't know anything about death penalty until I saw this movie. It gave me one thing that there is none who has right to take another man's life regardless of what he has done. I really enjoyed it, it made a lot of sense.