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A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

# A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.
TV Movie   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.
🌏 Languages Available: English
📆 Date Released: 1999-05-22
⌚ Running Time: 101 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 5.2

Beloved Cast

Don Cheadle original image
Grant Wiggins
Don Cheadle
Cicely Tyson original image
Tante Lou
Cicely Tyson
Mekhi Phifer original image
Jefferson
Mekhi Phifer
Irma P. Hall original image
Miss Emma
Irma P. Hall
Brent Jennings original image
Reverend Ambrose
Brent Jennings
Lisa Arrindell original image
Vivian Baptiste
Lisa Arrindell
Dana Ivey original image
Edna Guidry
Dana Ivey
Frank Hoyt Taylor original image
Sheriff Guidry
Frank Hoyt Taylor
Stuart Culpepper original image
Henri Pichot
Stuart Culpepper
Von Coulter original image
Farrell Jarreau
Von Coulter
Elijah Kelley original image
Clarence
Elijah Kelley
Wynton Yates original image
Louis Washington
Wynton Yates
Patty Mack original image
Inez
Patty Mack

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