A Lesson Before Dying
"A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey."
Overview
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.
About A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
Released in 1999, A Lesson Before Dying is a drama film from Spanky Pictures (United States of America). It was directed by Joseph Sargent. The cast is led by Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall and Brent Jennings. With a runtime of 1h 41m, the film averages 5.0/10 across 19 TMDB ratings.
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