

Status
Released
Release
1999
Runtime
1h 41m
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Storyline
"A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey."
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.
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Details
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Release Date
- May 22, 1999
- Languages
- English
- Director
- Production
- Production Countries
- United States of America
Top Cast
29 Cast Members

Don Cheadle
Grant Wiggins

Cicely Tyson
Tante Lou

Mekhi Phifer
Jefferson

Irma P. Hall
Miss Emma

Brent Jennings
Reverend Ambrose

Lisa Arrindell
Vivian Baptiste

Dana Ivey
Edna Guidry

Frank Hoyt Taylor
Sheriff Guidry
Stuart Culpepper
Henri Pichot

Von Coulter
Farrell Jarreau

Elijah Kelley
Clarence
Wynton Yates
Louis Washington
Patty Mack
Inez
Jameelah Nuriddin
Irene
Cierra Meche
Estelle

Sonny Shroyer
Defence Attourney
Clay Chappell
Deputy Paul

Sahr Ngaujah
Brother
David Kote
Bear

Danny Nelson
Mr Grope






