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Release Date:
12 January 1996 (USA)
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Plot:
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
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11 nominations
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(29 articles)
Sarandon And Besson Land Stockholm Film Festival Honours
(From WENN. 21 October 2009, 12:06 PM, PDT)
Some People You Might Know (And Some You Might Not) Are Receiving Awards!
(From FilmExperience. 25 September 2009, 12:47 AM, PDT)
(From WENN. 21 October 2009, 12:06 PM, PDT)
Some People You Might Know (And Some You Might Not) Are Receiving Awards!
(From FilmExperience. 25 September 2009, 12:47 AM, PDT)
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***** Unbeatable film and performances
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:R (certificate #34133) |
Iceland:16 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:MA |
Chile:14 |
Denmark:16 |
Finland:K-16 |
Germany:12 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Netherlands:16 |
Peru:14 |
Portugal:M/16 |
South Korea:15 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
Singapore:PG
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The real Sister Helen appears outside the prison during a candlelight vigil scene.
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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.
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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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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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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Will & Grace: Grace, Replaced (#1.18)" (1999)
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Soundtrack:
Isa Lei
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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.