A Lesson Before Dying
Directed by Joseph Sargent6.780%77%4.8
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.
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A Lesson Before Dying was released on 1999年5月22日.
A Lesson Before Dying was directed by Joseph Sargent.
A Lesson Before Dying has a runtime of 1小时 41分钟.
A Lesson Before Dying was produced by Robert Benedetti.
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.
The key characters in A Lesson Before Dying are Grant Wiggins (Don Cheadle), Tante Lou (Cicely Tyson), Jefferson (Mekhi Phifer).
A Lesson Before Dying is rated PG-13.
A Lesson Before Dying is a 剧情 film.
A Lesson Before Dying has an audience rating of 7.7 out of 10.