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A Lesson Before Dying: Directed by Joseph Sargent. With Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall. In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing of a white store owner.
A Lesson Before Dying is a 1999 American made-for-television drama film adapted from the 1993 Ernest J. Gaines novel of the same name. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie and a Peabody Award. Cast and characters. Don Cheadle – Grant Wiggins; Cicely Tyson – Tante Lou; Mekhi Phifer – Jefferson; Irma P. Hall ...
Robert Benedetti. Ernest J. Gaines. Ann Peacock. 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.
Ernest J. Gaines' bestseller, set in 1940s Louisiana, about an educated African-American (Don Cheadle) who returns to teach and fight racial injustice. Jefferson: Mekhi Phifer. Tante Lou: Cicely ...
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In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing of 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.
