A Lesson Before Dying poster

A Lesson Before Dying

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

Description: 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.

Genres: TV Movie, Drama

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Budget: $0 | Revenue : $0

Runtime: 101 minutes

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Don Cheadle

Played Grant Wiggins

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Cicely Tyson

Played Tante Lou

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Mekhi Phifer

Played Jefferson

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Irma P. Hall

Played Miss Emma

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Brent Jennings

Played Reverend Ambrose

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Lisa Arrindell

Played Vivian Baptiste

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Dana Ivey

Played Edna Guidry

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Frank Hoyt Taylor

Played Sheriff Guidry

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Stuart Culpepper

Played Henri Pichot

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Von Coulter

Played Farrell Jarreau

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Elijah Kelley

Played Clarence

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Wynton Yates

Played Louis Washington

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Patty Mack

Played Inez

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