Watch: Dead Man Walking 1995 123movies, Full Movie Online – A convicted murderer on Death Row and the nun who befriends him. Through the portrayal of finely drawn characters and their interactions as the days, hours, and minutes tick down to the condemned man’s execution, powerful emotions are unleashed. While Matthew Poncelet and Sister Prejean desperately try to gain a stay of execution from the governor or the courts, scenes are intercut from the brutal crime, gradually revealing the truth about the events that transpired. In addition to her temporal help, the nun also tries to reach out spiritually and assist as a guide to salvation..
Plot: A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
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Gripping piece on the death penalty
The story of a nun who is assigned to be the spiritual advisor of a man who has only a short time to live before his execution. He has already been on death row for six years. He and another man have been convicted of the brutal murder of a couple out parking in the woods.The dialogue is fantastic as Sister Helen has meaningful discussions with not only our ‘dead man’ Matthew Poncelet, but also his family and the families of the victims involved. The film builds in intensity until unleashing a stunning and gripping conclusion that left me deeply moved. It’s also an educational piece on the lethal injection process, something most people would have no clue about before viewing this film. Both Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn exhibit phenomenal acting from beginning to end. You can see real emotion in their faces and movements especially towards the end. There’s not one moment in the film that feels unnecessary, not one moment in the film that seems contrived. Everything feels real and the direction (from Tim Robbins, who played the main character in The Shawshank Redemption only a year earlier) attests to its greatness.
It’s a bit of casting cleverness that Scott Wilson – who played one of the two killers in 1967’s “In Cold Blood” – is playing a chaplain here.
A couple of points – Matt starts out manipulative with Prejean even trying some pedestrian jail house come on initially, but she lets him know where things stand right off the bat. I wonder if he would have ever taken responsibility for what he did and admitted his crimes to Sister Prejean if he was not about to be executed. Bravado seems to be a big part of his identity. He ultimately admits he would not have been in the woods doing what he did to get to death row if he had the courage to stand up to his crazy companion and just walk away.
And this is the thing about these kinds of cases, the individual is on trial, but often it is two people together each of whom can’t back down in the presence of the other who do the most gruesome crimes. It really is the bad company they choose and poor impulse control when free to make those choices that leads to their downfall. Some call it the synergy of evil.
Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 2 min (122 min)
Budget 11000000
Revenue 39363635
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama
Director Tim Robbins
Writer Helen Prejean, Tim Robbins
Actors Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky
Country United Kingdom, United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 23 wins & 23 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix DTS (Digital DTS Sound) (1999 Re-Release), SDDS (1999 Re-Release), Dolby Digital (1999 Re-Release), Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory DuArt Film Laboratories Inc., New York, USA
Film Length 3,344 m (Sweden), 3,415 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 200T 5293)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm