A Lesson Before Dying
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.
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.
Actor: Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall, Brent Jennings, Lisa Arrindell, Dana Ivey, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Stuart Culpepper, Von Coulter
Director: Joseph Sargent
Country: United States of America
Produced By: Spanky Pictures, Ellen M. Krass Productions, HBO Films
Runtime: 101
Release: 1999
Rating: 4.625 out of 10
Language: English,
Views: 590
Content Rating:PG-13
Quality: DVD
Also known as: A Lesson Before Dying - Nachhilfestunden In Der Todeszelle, A Lesson Before Dying - Zwischen Leben Und Tod, Verurteilt - Der Fall Jefferson
Keywords:Politics
Aunt
1940s
Convenience Store
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