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A Lesson Before Dying(1999)
Status: Released
Date: 1999-05-22
48%
16 Votes
Time: 1h 41m
A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.
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: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Spanky Pictures
Ellen M. Krass Productions
Movie: A Lesson Before Dying
Top 10 Billed Cast
Don Cheadle
Grant Wiggins
Cicely Tyson
Tante Lou
Mekhi Phifer
Jefferson
Irma P. Hall
Miss Emma
Brent Jennings
Reverend Ambrose
Lisa Arrindell
Vivian Baptiste
Dana Ivey
Edna Guidry
Frank Hoyt Taylor
Sheriff Guidry
Von Coulter
Farrell Jarreau
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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.
Release Date
1999-05-22
Average
4.781
Rating:
2.4 startsTagline
A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.
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