Includes the Academy-Award nominated script, and scene-by-scene notes written exclusively for this edition by Tim Robbins detailing the choices he made during production and post-production. 20 b/w photos.
The Newmarket Shooting Script(tm) Series features an attractive 7 x 9 1/4 inch format that includes a facsimile of the film's shooting script, as chosen by the writer and/or director, exclusive notes on the film's production and history, stills, and credits. 
 A member of the Catholic Sisters of St Joseph of Medaille, a religious order committed to reaching out to the poor, Sister Helen Prejean is Director of Pilgrimage for Life and is on the staff of Hope House in the St Thomas housing projects. Born in Baton Rouge, she now lives in Louisiana. 
 In 1994, she won the US Christopher Award, for artistic excellence affirming the hightest values of the human spirit, and in the same year also won the American Library Association Notable Book of the Year for Dead Man Walking.