A Lesson Before Dying

5.0 1999 101 min
PG-13
Drama

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 wha…

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Director
Joseph Sargent
Classification
PG-13

Cast

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Don Cheadle Grant Wiggins
Cicely Tyson Tante Lou
Mekhi Phifer Jefferson
Irma P. Hall Miss Emma
Brent Jennings Reverend Ambrose
Lisa Arrindell Vivian Baptiste
Dana Ivey Edna Guidry
Frank Hoyt Taylor Sheriff Guidry
Stuart Culpepper Henri Pichot
Von Coulter Farrell Jarreau
Elijah Kelley Clarence
Wynton Yates Louis Washington
Patty Mack Inez
Jameelah Nuriddin Irene

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