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A Lesson Before Dying

5.019991h 41mPG-13MovieDrama

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.…

DirectorJoseph Sargent
ProducersRobert Benedetti·Ted Demme

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Cast · Directed by Joseph Sargent

DCDon Cheadle
Don Cheadle
Grant Wiggins
CTCicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson
Tante Lou
MPMekhi Phifer
Mekhi Phifer
Jefferson
IHIrma P. Hall
Irma P. Hall
Miss Emma
BJBrent Jennings
Brent Jennings
Reverend Ambrose
LALisa Arrindell
Lisa Arrindell
Vivian Baptiste
DIDana Ivey
Dana Ivey
Edna Guidry
FTFrank Hoyt Taylor
Frank Hoyt Taylor
Sheriff Guidry
SC
Stuart Culpepper
Henri Pichot
VCVon Coulter
Von Coulter
Farrell Jarreau
EKElijah Kelley
Elijah Kelley
Clarence
WY
Wynton Yates
Louis Washington

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