
Dead Man Walking
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- Year:
- 1995
- 122 min
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- Hi, Sister.
- Hi, Billie Jean. How you doing?
It's the late Sister Helen.
I've got a note from my mama, ldella.
Do you need a new notebook?
- Thanks.
- How about you, Melvin?
- Can you be there at 7:00?
- Yes.
- New poetry books.
- Your poem got all smudged.
Smudged?
Sister Helen, I got
another letter from that guy.
- Which guy is that, Luis?
- Oh, yeah.
Sounds like he could use
some friendly words.
- I'll come up after the class.
- Okay.
- It got smudged.
- You can still read it.
"There's a woman standing there
in the dark.
And she's got big arms to hold you.
But you won't feel
those arms that hug...
... till you can see her face.
So you stand there waiting for
the light at the end of the road. "
Idella, that is so fine.
Thank you.
"My lawyer seems to have disappeared,
so I need help on the legal end.
But if you can't do that,
I'd take a kind word or a visit.
Gets real quiet here sometimes. "
None of these guys on the row
can afford an attorney for appeals.
You can imagine the calls
we get from death row inmates...
- ...begging us to find attorneys.
- Who'll work for free.
Right. These petitions
take hours to prepare.
Attorneys aren't exactly
lining up for the job.
"Dear Sister Helen,
thank you for writing to me.
I'm writing from my home.:
my 6- by-8-foot cell.
I'm in here 23 hours a day.
We don't work on death row.
We're special here. They keep us
away from the general population.
We're the elite because we gonna fry.
It's hard not to get soft here.
I press my footlocker, lift it,
to try to get my muscles in shape.
It's hard not to get fat.
Rice, potatoes, pancakes, beans.
Sometimes I feel like
a sow on a farm...
for a Christmas slaughter.
I dreamt once that I was
about to be fried in the chair...
...and then God come into my cell
with a chef's hat on.
He rolled me around in bread crumbs,
licking His chops and all.
Maybe I'm a weirdo
to have dreams like that...
...but your mind does funny things
when you're surrounded...
...by people that want to kill you.
Anyway, thanks for writing.
I don't get many letters
or visitors either.
No one in my family seems able to make
the trip out here. I understand.
It's a long drive from Slidell. "
- Good morning.
- Good morning, Father.
- Sister...
- Helen Prejean. Nice to meet you.
- Have a seat.
- Thank you.
- Have you been in a prison before?
- No, Father.
Sister Clement and I sang at the
New Orleans Juvenile Detention Center.
We sang "Kumbaya,"
They made up
their own verses, singing:
Someone's escaping, my Lord
The guards made us sing
a different song.
Where is your habit?
Our Sisters haven't worn
the habit for 20 years.
You are aware of the papal request
regarding nuns' garments, aren't you?
I believe the pope said
"distinctive clothing," not habits.
Well, I'm sure you'll interpret it in
your own way. Whatever's convenient.
Matthew Poncelet.
I remember him from the news.
Him and another fella...
...shot two children in the back
of the head on Lover's Lane.
Raped the girl.
Stabbed her several times.
Do you know what you're getting into?
So, what is it, Sister?
Morbid fascination?
Bleeding-heart sympathy?
He wrote me and asked me to come.
There is no romance here, Sister.
No Jimmy Cagney
"I've been wrongly accused.
If I only had someone
who believed in me" nonsense.
They are all con men.
And they will take advantage
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