A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying
1h 41m
1999
HD
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.
Genres TV Movie, Drama
Casts Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall, Brent Jennings, Lisa Arrindell, Dana Ivey
Directors Joseph Sargent
A Lesson Before Dying

Nora's Hair Salon II: A Cut Above
2008

Nora's Hair Salon II: A Cut Above

Off Screen
2005

Off Screen

The Women of Brewster Place
1989

The Women of Brewster Place

Defeat of the German Forces Near Moscow: The Restored Soviet WW2 Documentary

Defeat of the German Forces Near Moscow: The Restored Soviet WW2 Documentary

Gaston & Leo in Hong Kong
1988

Gaston & Leo in Hong Kong

And the Pain Remains
2016

And the Pain Remains

Michael Lives Alone
2023

Michael Lives Alone

Blood and Lust
2023

Blood and Lust

Dance Dance
2017

Dance Dance

Mrityudand
1997

Mrityudand

Prisoners of the Sun
1992

Prisoners of the Sun

T.R.Y.
2003

T.R.Y.

The Southern Charm
2003

The Southern Charm

Re-BORN
2022

Re-BORN

Mission China
2017

Mission China

The Latin Explosion: A New America
2015

The Latin Explosion: A New America

They Call Him Sasquatch
2003

They Call Him Sasquatch