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Writers (WGA):
Helen Prejean (book)
Tim Robbins (written by)
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Release Date:
12 January 1996 (USA) more
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A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Oscar. Another 19 wins & 11 nominations more
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***** Unbeatable film and performances more (164 total)

Cast

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Susan Sarandon ... Sister Helen Prejean

Sean Penn ... Matthew Poncelet
Robert Prosky ... Hilton Barber

Raymond J. Barry ... Earl Delacroix

R. Lee Ermey ... Clyde Percy
Celia Weston ... Mary Beth Percy

Lois Smith ... Helen's mother
Scott Wilson ... Chaplain Farlely
Roberta Maxwell ... Lucille Poncelet
Margo Martindale ... Sister Colleen
Barton Heyman ... Capt. Beliveau

Steve Boles ... Sgt. Neal Trapp

Nesbitt Blaisdell ... Warden Hartman
Ray Aranha ... Luis Montoya
Larry Pine ... Guy Gilardi
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Rated R for a depiction of a rape and murder.
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122 min
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The real Sister Helen appears outside the prison during a candlelight vigil scene. more
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Continuity: The nurse who inserts the needle in Matthew's arm is shown putting on latex gloves that reach almost to her elbows. Then when actually working on Matthew's arm the gloves barely cover her wrists. more
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Prison guard: Tell me something sister, what is nun doing in a place like this. Shouldn't you be teaching children? Didn't 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 that killing people's wrong.
Prison guard: You know what the Bible say, 'An eye for an eye'.
Sister Helen Prejean: You know what else the Bible ask for death as a punishment? For adultery, prostitution, homosexuality, trespass upon sacred grounds, profane in a sabbath and contempt to parents.
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***** Unbeatable film and performances, 17 February 2000
Author: Bil-3 from Toronto, Ontario

Susan Sarandon is unbeatable in this powerful and fascinating adaptation of Sister Helen Prejean's true-life novel about her experiences as a nun counselling inmates on death row. Tim Robbins (showing exceptional power as a director) has written a script that fictionalizes Prejean's two factual accounts of her life into one fictional one involving Sean Penn as the first man Prejean ever counselled, a man on death row for the rape and murder of two young teenagers. The entire cast is perfectly rounded, from Margo Martindale as Prejean's good friend Colleen, Robert Prosky as an earnest appeals lawyer, Roberta Maxwell as Penn's brokenhearted mother, and R. Lee Ermey, Celia Weston, and Raymond J. Barry as the parents of the murder victims. The film is at heart a statement against the death penalty, but it doesn't drive a message home--it examines every aspect of the situation and challenges you on so many levels (unlike similarly themed films such as Last Dance and The Chamber) that you'll struggle to comfortably find what you feel is true for yourself. Lois Smith has two wonderful scenes as Prejean's wise mother, and as usual she does a brilliant job. Beautiful filmmaking that gets better with each viewing.

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