A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying by Joseph Sargent

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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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Cast

Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle as Grant Wiggins

Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson as Tante Lou

Mekhi Phifer

Mekhi Phifer as Jefferson

Irma P. Hall

Irma P. Hall as Miss Emma

Brent Jennings

Brent Jennings as Reverend Ambrose

Lisa Arrindell

Lisa Arrindell as Vivian Baptiste

Dana Ivey

Dana Ivey as Edna Guidry

Frank Hoyt Taylor

Frank Hoyt Taylor as Sheriff Guidry

Stuart Culpepper

Stuart Culpepper as Henri Pichot

Von Coulter

Von Coulter as Farrell Jarreau

Elijah Kelley

Elijah Kelley as Clarence

Wynton Yates

Wynton Yates as Louis Washington

Patty Mack

Patty Mack as Inez

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