A Lesson Before Dying

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-05-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (854 Reviews)

Director:

Joseph Sargent

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Don Cheadle Cicely Tyson Mekhi Phifer Irma P. Hall

Writer:

Ernest J. Gaines (novel)

Ann Peacock (teleplay)

Fullplot:

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing of 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 the schoolteacher to 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.

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