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A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

19991h 41m

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1999

Runtime

1h 41m

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"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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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 41m
Release Date
May 22, 1999
Languages
English
Production Countries
United States of America

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