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A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

(1999)

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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  1. Director : Joseph Sargent
  2. Producer : Robert Benedetti,Rick Dallago
  3. Editor : Michael Brown
  4. Cast : Don Cheadle,Cicely Tyson,Mekhi Phifer,Irma P. Hall,Brent Jennings,Lisa Arrindell,Dana Ivey,Frank Hoyt Taylor,Stuart Culpepper,Von Coulter,Elijah Kelley,Wynton Yates,Patty Mack,Jameelah Nuriddin,Cierra Meche,Sonny Shroyer,Clay Chappell,Sahr Ngaujah,David Kote,Danny Nelson,Walter Breaux Jr.,Carol Sutton,Julian Dalcour,Anthony Michael Frederick,Ronald McCall,Anthony Bean,Larry McDonald,Mark Rickard,Terence Rosemore

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Original TitleA Lesson Before Dying

Status Released

Release Information

  • 1999-05-22

Original LanguageEnglish

Runtime 01h 41m

Production CompaniesSpanky Pictures,Ellen M. Krass Productions,HBO Films

Genres

  • Drama

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