Watch A Lesson Before Dying (1999) : Movie Online 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. | ||
| Release Date | : | May 22, 1999 |
| Runtime | : | |
| Genres | : | Drama |
| Production Company | : | Spanky Pictures, Ellen M. Krass Productions, HBO Films |
| Production Countries | : | United States of America |
| Casts | : | Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall, Brent Jennings, Lisa Arrindell, Dana Ivey, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Stuart Culpepper, Von Coulter, Elijah Kelley |
| Plot Keywords | : | politics, aunt, 1940s |
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