Tim Robbins' Academy Award-winning film won a Best Actress Oscar? for Susan Sarandon and was nominated for Best Director (Robbins) and Best Actor (Sean Penn). Based on Sister Helen Prejean's highly praised memoir of her moving spiritual journey with a convicted killer through our system of capital punishment, here is the acclaimed script in the Newmarket Shooting Script? series format. The book includes an introduction by Robbins, a foreword by Sister Prejean, a page-by-page facsimile of the script, production stills, scene-by-scene notes written by Robbins exclusively for this edition detailing the choices he made during production and post-production, and the complete cast and crew credits.