1999
5.2 (14 votes)
1h 41m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
Spanky Pictures
Ellen M. Krass Productions
HBO Films
Ellen M. Krass Productions
HBO Films
A Lesson Before Dying
A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.
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.
Key Crew
Director: Joseph Sargent
Producer: Robert Benedetti
Top Cast
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
Videos
A Lesson Before Dying Trailer 1999
