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A Lesson Before Dying

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5.2/10 • 14

1999-05-221h 41m

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A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a 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 school teacher 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.

Directors
Joseph Sargent

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  1. Don Cheadle

    Don Cheadle

    Grant Wiggins

  2. Cicely Tyson

    Cicely Tyson

    Tante Lou

  3. Mekhi Phifer

    Mekhi Phifer

    Jefferson

  4. Irma P. Hall

    Irma P. Hall

    Miss Emma

  5. Brent Jennings

    Brent Jennings

    Reverend Ambrose

  6. Lisa Arrindell

    Lisa Arrindell

    Vivian Baptiste

  7. Dana Ivey

    Dana Ivey

    Edna Guidry

  8. Frank Hoyt Taylor

    Frank Hoyt Taylor

    Sheriff Guidry

  9. Stuart Culpepper

    Stuart Culpepper

    Henri Pichot

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Status
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Original Language
English
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Keywords
politicsaunt1940s