A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.
1999 · PG-13 · 1h 41m · Drama
Genres: Drama
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.
Director: Joseph Sargent
Writers: Ernest J. Gaines
Cast
Don Cheadle as Grant WigginsCicely Tyson as Tante LouMekhi Phifer as JeffersonIrma P. Hall as Miss EmmaBrent Jennings as Reverend AmbroseLisa Arrindell as Vivian BaptisteDana Ivey as Edna GuidryFrank Hoyt Taylor as Sheriff GuidryStuart Culpepper as Henri PichotVon Coulter as Farrell JarreauElijah Kelley as ClarenceWynton Yates as Louis WashingtonMore like this
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