A Lesson Before Dying

Name: A Lesson Before Dying
Genre: Drama
Released: 1999-05-22
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 5
Cast: Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall, Brent Jennings

PG-13 1999 1 h 41 min

Drama

50%

Audience score19 votes on TMDB

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“A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.”

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.