
A Lesson Before Dying
Drama
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.
Top Cast


Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle
Grant Wiggins
Don Cheadle
Grant Wiggins


Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson
Tante Lou
Cicely Tyson
Tante Lou


Mekhi Phifer
Mekhi Phifer
Jefferson
Mekhi Phifer
Jefferson


Irma P. Hall
Irma P. Hall
Miss Emma
Irma P. Hall
Miss Emma


Brent Jennings
Brent Jennings
Reverend Ambrose
Brent Jennings
Reverend Ambrose


Lisa Arrindell
Lisa Arrindell
Vivian Baptiste
Lisa Arrindell
Vivian Baptiste


Dana Ivey
Dana Ivey
Edna Guidry
Dana Ivey
Edna Guidry


Frank Hoyt Taylor
Frank Hoyt Taylor
Sheriff Guidry
Frank Hoyt Taylor
Sheriff Guidry
Stuart Culpepper
Stuart Culpepper
Henri Pichot
Stuart Culpepper
Henri Pichot


Von Coulter
Von Coulter
Farrell Jarreau
Von Coulter
Farrell Jarreau
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