A Lesson Before Dying (1999)

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Original Title: A Lesson Before Dying

Release Date: May 22, 1999

Runtime: 101 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $0.0

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.

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Cast

Don Cheadle

Grant Wiggins

Brent Jennings

Reverend Ambrose

Lisa Arrindell

Vivian Baptiste

Dana Ivey

Edna Guidry

Frank Hoyt Taylor

Sheriff Guidry

Von Coulter

Farrell Jarreau

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