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A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

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A Lesson Before Dying

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

1999
1h 41m
5.0(15 votes)
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.

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Cast & Crew

13 members
Acting

Don Cheadle

Grant Wiggins

Don Cheadle
Acting

Cicely Tyson

Tante Lou

Cicely Tyson
Acting

Mekhi Phifer

Jefferson

Mekhi Phifer
Acting

Irma P. Hall

Miss Emma

Irma P. Hall
Acting

Brent Jennings

Reverend Ambrose

Brent Jennings
Acting

Lisa Arrindell

Vivian Baptiste

Lisa Arrindell
Acting

Dana Ivey

Edna Guidry

Dana Ivey
Acting

Frank Hoyt Taylor

Sheriff Guidry

Frank Hoyt Taylor
Acting

Stuart Culpepper

Henri Pichot

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Acting

Von Coulter

Farrell Jarreau

Von Coulter
Acting

Elijah Kelley

Clarence

Elijah Kelley
Production

Wynton Yates

Louis Washington

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Patty Mack

Inez

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