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A Lesson Before Dying (TV Movie 1999) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies ...
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.
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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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When Grant learns of Jefferson (Mekhi Phifer), a young black man falsely accused of killing a white shop owner, he reluctantly visits the condemned prisoner. Gradually, the two form a friendship ...
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