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22 de mai. de 1999 · A Lesson Before Dying: Directed by Joseph Sargent. With Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall. In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing of a white store owner.
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- Joseph Sargent
- 1999-05-22
Subscribed. 2.9K. 277K views 3 years ago. When a young black man is falsely convicted of killing a white shop owner; his hope for justice quickly fades, but an unlikely ally comes along to restore...
A Lesson Before Dying is a 1999 American made-for-television drama film adapted from the 1993 Ernest J. Gaines novel of the same name. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie and a Peabody Award. Cast and characters. Don Cheadle – Grant Wiggins; Cicely Tyson – Tante Lou; Mekhi Phifer – Jefferson; Irma P ...
A Lesson Before Dying. Grant Wiggins (Don Cheadle) is an African-American schoolteacher in the pre-Civil Rights Movement South who feels conflicted about his status as one of the only...
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- Joseph Sargent
- PG-13
- Don Cheadle
A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993. It was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award . The novel is based on the true story of Willie Francis , a young Black American man best known for surviving a failed electrocution in the state of Louisiana in 1946.
- Ernest J. Gaines
- 1993
Subscribed. 1 view 5 days ago. “A Lesson Before Dying” (1999) is a poignant TV movie that embarks on an unexpected journey. In a small Cajun community in 1940s Louisiana, a young black...
- 90 min
- 18
- Hollywood Classic Movie
22 de mai. de 1999 · Ernest J. Gaines. Novel. Ann Peacock. Teleplay. 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.
