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A Lesson Before Dying (1999)

ALL 05/22/1999 (en) Drama 101 Min
  • Release
    05/22/1999
  • Production
    Spanky Pictures, Ellen M. Krass Productions, HBO Films
  • Rotten tomato
    52%
  • Original title
    A Lesson Before Dying
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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

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.

  1. Joseph Sargent

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Robert Benedetti

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Don Cheadle

    Grant Wiggins

  2. Cicely Tyson

    Tante Lou

  3. Mekhi Phifer

    Jefferson

  4. Irma P. Hall

    Miss Emma

  5. Brent Jennings

    Reverend Ambrose

  6. Lisa Arrindell

    Vivian Baptiste

  7. Dana Ivey

    Edna Guidry

  8. Frank Hoyt Taylor

    Sheriff Guidry

  9. Stuart Culpepper

    Henri Pichot

  10. Von Coulter

    Farrell Jarreau

  11. Elijah Kelley

    Clarence

  12. Wynton Yates

    Louis Washington

  13. Patty Mack

    Inez

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 13 , Crews : 4

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A Lesson Before Dying (1999) 101 Min

ALL 05/22/1999 (en)
Drama
  • Release 05/22/1999
  • Production
    Spanky Pictures, Ellen M. Krass Productions, HBO Films
  • Original title A Lesson Before Dying
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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

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.

  1. Joseph Sargent

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Robert Benedetti

    Producer



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