Dead Man Walking
The film "Dead Man Walking" is a film about redemption. The film is
directed by Tim Robbins. Susan Sarandon plays a Nun called Sister Helen
Prejean. She is asked by a convicted murderer to get him a lawyer, and then
later is asked to be his spiritual advisor. The convicted killer is named
Matthew Poncelet, and he is played by Sean Penn. The film is set in the
Angola state penitentiary, in Louisiana. Matthew Poncelet first asks her to
get him a lawyer so he can repeal his Death sentence. Sister Helen gets him a
lawyer, but they fail after several good attempts to get him off death row.
Sister Helen begins to come to him almost every day after Poncelet asks her
to be his spiritual advisor on the day of his death. During this phase of the
film Sister Helen tries to get Poncelet to tell her about his own life. Poncelet
tells her about his life and why he was put on death row. Poncelet was
convicted along with another man in the murder of......
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