A Lesson Before Dying

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.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

TV Movie,

Drama

Duration:

101 minutes

Year:

1999

Director:

Joseph Sargent

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Company:

Spanky Pictures,

Ellen M. Krass Productions,

HBO Films

Cast:

Grant Wiggins

Tante Lou

Jefferson

Miss Emma

Reverend Ambrose

Crew:

Director

Novel

Teleplay

Producer