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A Lesson Before Dying (1999)

US:: PG-13 Drama TV Movie

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.

Updated May 19 2020

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1999-05-22

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politics aunt convenience store 1940s

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Runtime: 101 mins Rating: 5.1 Tag Line: A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.

Cast

Mekhi Phifer

Jefferson

Don Cheadle

Grant Wiggins

Dana Ivey

Edna Guidry

Cicely Tyson

Tante Lou

Elijah Kelley

Clarence

Irma P. Hall

Miss Emma

Frank Hoyt Taylor

Sheriff Guidry

Lisa Arrindell

Vivian Baptiste

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