A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.
Plot Summary
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.
Full Cast & Characters
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
Director & Crew
Joseph Sargent
Director
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A Lesson Before Dying was directed by Joseph Sargent and released in 1999.
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A Lesson Before Dying has a runtime of 1 hours and 41 minutes.
Movie Details
- Release Date
- 1999-05-22
- Status
- Released