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A Lesson Before Dying( 1999)

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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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      Don Cheadle

      Grant Wiggins

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      Cicely Tyson

      Tante Lou

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      Mekhi Phifer

      Jefferson

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      Irma P. Hall

      Miss Emma

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      Brent Jennings

      Reverend Ambrose

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      Lisa Arrindell

      Vivian Baptiste

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      Dana Ivey

      Edna Guidry

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      Frank Hoyt Taylor

      Sheriff Guidry

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      Stuart Culpepper

      Henri Pichot

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      Von Coulter

      Farrell Jarreau

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      Elijah Kelley

      Clarence

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      Wynton Yates

      Louis Washington

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      Patty Mack

      Inez

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

    • politics
    • aunt
    • 1940s