Rating:
5.2/10 by 14 users
A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
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.
Directing:
- Joseph Sargent
- Ernest J. Gaines
- Ann Peacock
Release Date:
Sat, May 22, 1999
Rating: 5.2/10 by 14 users
Alternative Title:
A Lesson Before Dying - Nachhilfestunden in der Todeszelle - DE
A Lesson Before Dying - Zwischen Leben und Tod - DE
Verurteilt - Der Fall Jefferson - DE
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 41 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: politics, aunt, 1940s
Rating: 5.2/10 by 14 users
Alternative Title:
A Lesson Before Dying - Nachhilfestunden in der Todeszelle - DE
A Lesson Before Dying - Zwischen Leben und Tod - DE
Verurteilt - Der Fall Jefferson - DE
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 41 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: politics, aunt, 1940s
Don Cheadle
Grant Wiggins
Cicely Tyson
Tante Lou
Mekhi Phifer
Jefferson
Irma P. Hall
Miss Emma
Brent Jennings
Reverend Ambrose
Lisa Arrindell
Vivian Baptiste
Dana Ivey
Edna Guidry
Frank Hoyt Taylor
Sheriff Guidry
Stuart Culpepper
Henri Pichot
Von Coulter
Farrell Jarreau
Elijah Kelley
Clarence
Wynton Yates
Louis Washington
Patty Mack
Inez
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