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A Lesson Before Dying

22 May 1999
101 min
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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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Don Cheadle

Grant Wiggins

Mekhi Phifer

Jefferson

Cicely Tyson

Tante Lou

Brent Jennings

Reverend Ambrose

Dana Ivey

Edna Guidry

Lisa Arrindell

Vivian Baptiste

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Irma P. Hall

Miss Emma

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Frank Hoyt Taylor

Sheriff Guidry

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Von Coulter

Farrell Jarreau

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