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A Lesson Before Dying

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Calorie Rating: 142
Released: 1999-05-22
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Studios: Spanky Pictures, Ellen M. Krass Productions, HBO Films,


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.

Director / Directors



Cast

Don Cheadle
Character: Grant Wiggins
Cicely Tyson
Character: Tante Lou
Mekhi Phifer
Character: Jefferson

Irma P. Hall
Character: Miss Emma
Brent Jennings
Character: Reverend Ambrose
Lisa Arrindell
Character: Vivian Baptiste

Dana Ivey
Character: Edna Guidry
Frank Hoyt Taylor
Character: Sheriff Guidry
Stuart Culpepper
Character: Henri Pichot

Von Coulter
Character: Farrell Jarreau
Elijah Kelley
Character: Clarence
Wynton Yates
Character: Louis Washington

Patty Mack
Character: Inez


Production and Crew

Ann Peacock
Teleplay