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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- TriviaHelen Prejean: The real Sister Helen appears outside the prison during a candlelight vigil scene.
- GoofsThe 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 creditsThis Film Was Edited On Old Fashioned Machines. This credit was inspired by John Ottman, editor of 'The Usual Suspects'. Ottman had wanted to put "edited on a piece of s*** Steenbeck" at the end of his movie, but settled for the more subtle "Edited on film". Tim Robbins heard about this, and decided to put his own variation of the line on the credits of 'Dead Man Walking.'
- SoundtracksThe 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
The direction was spot on and the acting was fantastic. Penn plays an unlikable yet vulnerable character and Susan Sarandon owned her role. All of the other actors did exactly what they should have done... Convienced me they were NOT acting.
9 out of 10 from me.
- AClockworkOrangeBox
- Oct 10, 2007
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Box office
- Budget
- $11,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $39,363,635
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $118,266
- Jan 1, 1996
- Gross worldwide
- $39,363,635
- Runtime2 hours 2 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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