A Lesson Before Dying
movie
A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.
Released May 22, 1999
Genres:
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.
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 Ambrose
Lisa Arrindell
as
Vivian Baptiste
Dana Ivey
as
Edna Guidry
Frank Hoyt Taylor
as
Sheriff Guidry
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Stuart Culpepper
as
Henri Pichot
Von Coulter
as
Farrell Jarreau
Elijah Kelley
as
Clarence
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Wynton Yates
as
Louis Washington
