A Lesson Before Dying 1999

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.

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 

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• A Lesson Before Dying - Zwischen Leben und Tod
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