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A Lesson Before Dying (1999)

A Lesson Before Dying (1999)

Drama

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

Release Date: 1999, May 22
Directors: Joseph Sargent
Countries: United States of America
Production: Spanky Pictures, Ellen M. Krass Productions, Ellen M. Krass Productions, HBO Films, HBO Films
Cast: Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Dana Ivey, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall, Brent Jennings, Elijah Kelley, Lisa Arrindell, Stuart Culpepper, Jameelah Nuriddin, Von Coulter

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.

Keywords:

1940s politics aunt