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A Lesson Before Dying
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
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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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
Von Coulter
Farrell Jarreau
Elijah Kelley
Clarence
Joseph Sargent
Director
Robert Benedetti
Producer
Ann Peacock
Teleplay
Saving Private Ryan
Downfall
All the President's Men
JFK
The Last Emperor
The Old Gun
The Long Winter
The Right Stuff
The Caine Mutiny
Milk
Arlington Road
Wag the Dog
The Tin Drum
Flags of Our Fathers
The Mayor
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
The Children of Fierro
Freedom Man
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, Play Two: What Did You Expect?
Sadie
Marshall
The Visit
Bastard Out of Carolina
Escape from Pretoria
The Young One
Iron Jawed Angels
A Dry White Season
The Road Dance
44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out
The Good Neighbor
The Safety of Objects
All Day and a Night
Salomé
Disgrace
American Pastoral
Little Boy Blue
The Secrets We Keep
The Padre
Hellion
Strange Weather
May 22, 1999
HBO
