Don Cheadle
Grant Wiggins
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May 22, 1999 · 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.
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- Drama
- Joseph Sargent
- 1999-05-22
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.
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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- Joseph Sargent
- PG-13
- Don Cheadle
“A Lesson Before Dying” (1999) is a poignant TV movie that embarks on an unexpected journey. In a small Cajun community in 1940s Louisiana, a young black man named Jefferson is...
- 90 min
- 200
- Hollywood Blockbuster Movies
A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The novel is based on the true story of Willie Francis, a young Black American man best known for surviving a failed electrocution in the state of Louisiana, in 1946. [1]
- Ernest J. Gaines
- 1993
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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.
