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A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

TV Movie, Drama
1999, US
1h 41m

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Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle

Mekhi Phifer

Mekhi Phifer

Dana Ivey

Dana Ivey

Brent Jennings

Brent Jennings

Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson

Irma P. Hall

Irma P. Hall

Lisa Arrindell

Lisa Arrindell

Von Coulter

Von Coulter

Frank Hoyt Taylor

Frank Hoyt Taylor

Stuart Culpepper

Stuart Culpepper

Joseph Sargent

Joseph Sargent

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

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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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