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A Lesson Before Dying
(en)
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A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.
1999
1h41m
Drama
Overview: 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.
Status: Released
Release date: May 22, 1999
Countries of origin: United States of America,
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- Spanky Pictures
- Ellen M. Krass Productions
- HBO Films
Top Cast
Don Cheadle
as Grant Wiggins
Cicely Tyson
as Tante Lou
Mekhi Phifer
as Jefferson
Irma P. Hall
as Miss Emma
Brent Jennings
as Reverend Ambros...
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