A Lesson Before Dying

1999    1h 41m    PG-13
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In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing of a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and the aunt of the local schoolteacher convince the schoolteacher to go to the convicted man's cell each day to try to reaffirm to him that he is not an animal but a man with dignity.
Directed By
Joseph Sargent
Studio
Spanky Pictures, Ellen M. Krass Productions, HBO Films

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Cast of A Lesson Before Dying
  • Don CheadleGrant Wiggins
  • Cicely TysonTante Lou
  • Mekhi PhiferJefferson
  • Irma P. HallMiss Emma
  • Brent JenningsReverend Ambrose
  • Lisa ArrindellVivian Baptiste
  • Dana IveyEdna Guidry
  • Frank Hoyt TaylorSheriff Guidry
  • Stuart CulpepperHenri Pichot
  • Von CoulterFarrell Jarreau
  • Elijah KelleyClarence
  • Wynton YatesLouis Washington
  • Patty MackInez
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