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Dead Man Walking (film): Literary Connections, Cast & Overview

Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American crime drama film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, and co-produced and directed by Tim Robbins, who adapted the screenplay from the 1993 non-fiction book of the same name. It marked Peter Sarsgaard’s film debut.

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Dead Man Walking (film) topic overview

The analysis highlights Literary Connections, Cast and Overview as prominent areas in the source structure around Dead Man Walking (film).

Related topics
50
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
57
Extracted relationships
22
Related term clusters
23
Bridge connections
57

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 18 topics
Cast · 12 topics
Reception · 8 topics
Production · 7 topics
Other versions · 2 topics
Plot · 2 topics
Creation and conception · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Based on
Dead Man Walking 1993 book by Helen Prejean
Box office
$83 million
Budget
$11 million
Cinematography
Roger A. Deakins
Country
United States
Directed by
Tim Robbins

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Overview

Plot

Cast

Creation and conception

Production

Reception

Other versions

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How Dead Man Walking (film) connects Entity context

The extracted context around Dead Man Walking (film) shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Dead Man Walking (film) → R. Lee Ermey, Raymond J. Barry, Robert Prosky, Scott Wilson, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon Another extracted example is Dead Man Walking (film) → April 12, 1996 (1996-04-12) (United Kingdom), December 29, 1995 (1995-12-29) (United States). Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Dead Man Walking (film)

Top relations

Starring · 6
Dead Man Walking (film) → R. Lee Ermey, Raymond J. Barry, Robert Prosky, Scott Wilson, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon
Release dates · 2
Dead Man Walking (film) → April 12, 1996 (1996-04-12) (United Kingdom), December 29, 1995 (1995-12-29) (United States)
Based on · 1
Dead Man Walking (film) → Dead Man Walking 1993 book by Helen Prejean
Box office · 1
Dead Man Walking (film) → $83 million
Budget · 1
Dead Man Walking (film) → $11 million
Cinematography · 1
Dead Man Walking (film) → Roger A. Deakins
Country · 1
Dead Man Walking (film) → United States
Directed by · 1
Dead Man Walking (film) → Tim Robbins
Distributed by · 1
Dead Man Walking (film) → Gramercy Pictures (United States) PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (International)
Edited by · 1
Dead Man Walking (film) → Lisa Zeno Churgin

Important terminology

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Important terminology

film robbins poncelet sarandon helen sister penn dead man walking book death susan prejean sean robert lee directed tim based

Dead Man Walking (film) relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 22 structured relationships around Dead Man Walking (film). Examples in this analysis include Dead Man Walking (film) → Based on → Dead Man Walking 1993 book by Helen Prejean and Dead Man Walking (film) → Box office → $83 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Dead Man Walking (film)Based onDead Man Walking 1993 book by Helen Prejean1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)Box office$83 million1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)Budget$11 million1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)CinematographyRoger A. Deakins1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)CountryUnited States1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)Directed byTim Robbins1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)Distributed byGramercy Pictures (United States) PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (International)1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)Edited byLisa Zeno Churgin1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)LanguageEnglish1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)Music byDavid Robbins1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)Produced byJon Kilik Tim Robbins Rudd Simmons1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)Production companiesWorking Title Films Havoc1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)Release datesDecember 29, 1995 (1995-12-29) (United States)1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)Release datesApril 12, 1996 (1996-04-12) (United Kingdom)1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)Running time122 minutes1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)Screenplay byTim Robbins1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)StarringSusan Sarandon1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)StarringSean Penn1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)StarringRobert Prosky1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)StarringRaymond J. Barry1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)StarringR. Lee Ermey1.00infobox
Dead Man Walking (film)StarringScott Wilson1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Dead Man Walking (film) bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Man, Dead and Walking. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Dead Man Walking (film)
    • Man
    • Dead
    • Walking
    • Book
    • Film
    • Tim
    • Sarandon
    • Susan
    • Penn
    • Adapted
    • Box
    • Office
  • dead man walking (film)
    • Man
    • Dead
    • Walking
    • Book
    • Film
    • Tim
    • Sarandon
    • Susan
    • Political
    • Directed
    • Penn
    • Adapted
  • crime film
    • Walking
    • Man
    • Political
    • Sarandon
    • Directed
    • Robbins
    • Penn
    • Production
    • Tim
    • Poncelet
    • Budget
    • Million
  • drama (film and television)
    • Walking
    • Man
    • Political
    • Sarandon
    • Directed
    • Robbins
    • Penn
    • Production
    • Tim
    • Poncelet
    • Budget
    • Million
  • tim robbins
    • Robbins
    • Tim
    • Walking
    • Best
    • Production
    • Sarandon
    • Sean
    • Poncelet
    • Box
    • Office
    • Matthew
    • Row
  • dead man walking (book)
    • Man
    • Dead
    • Walking
    • Tim
    • Book
    • Susan
    • Film
    • Helen
    • Robbins
    • Sarandon
    • Based
    • Directed
  • helen prejean
    • Sister
    • Robert
    • Prejean
    • Poncelet
    • Matthew
    • Lee
    • Sean
    • Sarandon
    • Susan
    • Death
    • Penn
    • Hope
  • robert lee willie
    • Lee
    • Robert
    • Sean
    • Susan
    • Sarandon
    • Movie
    • Prejean
    • Sister
    • Penn
    • Box
    • Office
    • Hope

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Dead Man Walking (film), one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Dead Man Walking (film) with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Dead Man Walking (film) — Overview · splits 39 ⟂ 19
Dead Man Walking (film) — Cast · splits 45 ⟂ 13
Dead Man Walking (film) — Reception · splits 49 ⟂ 9
Dead Man Walking (film) — Production · splits 50 ⟂ 8
Dead Man Walking (film) — Plot · splits 55 ⟂ 3
Dead Man Walking (film) — Other versions · splits 55 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Dead Man Walking (film)

Nodes58
Edges57
Triples22
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.034483
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Dead Man Walking (film) to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Literary Connections, Cast & Overview, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Dead Man Walking (film) · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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