A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

1999
1h 41m
4.8

4.8/10

16 votes • View on IMDb
Drama

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

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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Production Information

Production Companies
Spanky Pictures Ellen M. Krass Productions HBO Films
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

politics aunt 1940s

Quick Facts

Release Date May 22, 1999
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0179940

Cast

Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle

Grant Wiggins

Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson

Tante Lou

Mekhi Phifer
Mekhi Phifer

Jefferson

Irma P. Hall
Irma P. Hall

Miss Emma

Brent Jennings
Brent Jennings

Reverend Ambrose

Lisa Arrindell
Lisa Arrindell

Vivian Baptiste

Dana Ivey
Dana Ivey

Edna Guidry

Frank Hoyt Taylor
Frank Hoyt Taylor

Sheriff Guidry

Stuart Culpepper
Stuart Culpepper

Henri Pichot

Von Coulter
Von Coulter

Farrell Jarreau

Elijah Kelley
Elijah Kelley

Clarence

Wynton Yates
Wynton Yates

Louis Washington

Key Crew

Joseph Sargent
Director
Robert Benedetti
Producer