A Lesson Before Dying
19991h 41m5.0
Drama
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genre
- Drama
- Certificate
- PG-13
- Origin
- United States of America
About
A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.
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.
Where to watch
Not available to stream in United States yet. It is in France.
Details
- Director
- Joseph Sargent
- Status
- Released
- Released
- May 22, 1999
- Studio
- Spanky Pictures, Ellen M. Krass Productions
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
Stuart Culpepper
Henri Pichot
Von Coulter
Farrell Jarreau
Elijah Kelley
Clarence
Wynton Yates
Louis Washington
Patty Mack
Inez
Jameelah Nuriddin
Irene
Cierra Meche
Estelle
Sonny Shroyer
Defence Attourney
Clay Chappell
Deputy Paul
Sahr Ngaujah
Brother
David Kote
Bear
Danny Nelson
Mr Grope
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