A Lesson Before Dying
Summary:
Don Cheadle, Mekhi Phifer, and Cicely Tyson star in this drama set in the 1940s about a black man sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit and teacher who is to counsel him as he awaits execution. A Lesson Before Dying is based on a novel by Ernest J. Gaines. Mark Deming, Rovi... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Don Cheadle - (Grant Wiggins)
Cicely Tyson - (Tante Lou)
Mekhi Phifer - (Jefferson)
Irma P. Hall - (Miss Emma)
Brent Jennings - (Reverend Ambrose)
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Review:
It's too much of a lesson to make for great entertainment, but A Lesson Before Dying wasn't made to sell popcorn. In fact, it wasn't even made for the theater. By 1999, cable was the only home for steadfastly earnest movies about soul-searching blacks in the South. Joseph Sargent's film tells an important enough story that it rewards HBO's... Continue >>
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