A Lesson Before Dying

1999 "A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey."
A Lesson Before Dying
6.7| 1h41m| PG-13| en| Drama, TV Movie
Storyline

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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  • A Lesson Before Dying Cast
Don Cheadle as Grant Wiggins
Cicely Tyson as Tante Lou
Mekhi Phifer as Jefferson
Irma P. Hall as Miss Emma
Brent Jennings as Reverend Ambrose
Lisa Arrindell as Vivian Baptiste
Dana Ivey as Edna Guidry
Frank Hoyt Taylor as Sheriff Guidry
Von Coulter as Farrell Jarreau