Serving Life

Name: Serving Life
Director: Lisa R. Cohen
Genre: TV Movie, Documentary
Released: 2011-07-28
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 5.3
Cast: Forest Whitaker

201185m

★ 5.3

TV MovieDocumentary

SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fellow inmates. Narrated and executive produced by Academy Award®-winner Forest Whitaker, the film takes viewers inside Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years.

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Forest Whitaker

Narrator (voice)

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