Release Date

22 May, 1999

Runtime

01:41: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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

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.

Original Title

A Lesson Before Dying

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Actors

Don Cheadle

Cicely Tyson

Mekhi Phifer

Irma P. Hall

Brent Jennings

Lisa Arrindell

Dana Ivey

Frank Hoyt Taylor

Stuart Culpepper

Von Coulter

Elijah Kelley

Wynton Yates

Patty Mack

Jameelah Nuriddin

Crew

Ernest J. Gaines

Ann Peacock

Joseph Sargent

Robert Benedetti