A LESSON BEFORE DYING

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• Release Year: 1999
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: A young man's destiny becomesia teacher's journey.; ; Based on the New York Times No. 1 best-selling novel and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Don Cheadle and Cicely Tyson star in A Lesson Before Dying.; ; Grant Wiggins (Don Cheadle) has become resigned to racial injustice in the south. Returning to his home town with a college degree, he continues to teach in the same one-room school of his youth. Struggling to make a difference in an oppressive time and place, Grant is called upon by two local women, Tante Lou and Miss Emma, to visit the town prison. There, Jefferson, a simple young man, has been convicted of a murder he did not commit and sentenced to die like an animal. Jefferson is full of rage and resentment, and the women are convinced that somehow he must be taught to die not like an animal, but like a man. It falls upon the teacher to enrich a life he cannot save and, in so doing, somehow redeem his own, by teaching one young man...
• Cast: Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall, Brent Jennings, Lisa Arrindell Anderson, Dana Ivey, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Stuart Culpepper, Patty Mack, Von Coulter, Elijah Kelley, Wynton Yates, Jameelah Nuriddin, Cierra Meche, Sonny Shroyer, Clay Chappell, Sahr Ngaujah, David Kote, Danny Nelson, Walter Breaux Jr., Carol Sutton, Julian Dalcour, Anthony Michael Frederick, Ronald McCall, Anthony Bean, Larry McDonald, Mark Rickard, Joseph Sargent
• Director: Joseph Sargent
• Runtime: 1:41
• Company: HBO Home Video
• Media Format: Movie