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A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
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A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.
Based on the New York Times No. 1 best-selling novel and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Don Cheadle and Cicely Tyson star in A Lesson Before Dying.
Grant Wiggins (Don Cheadle) has become resigned to racial injustice in the south.Returning to his home town with a college degree, he continues to teach in the same one-room school of his youth.Struggling to make a difference in an oppressive time and place, Grant is called upon by two local women, Tante Lou and Miss Emma, to visit the town prison.There, Jefferson, a simple young man, has been convicted of a murder he did not commit and sentenced to die like an animal.Jefferson is full of rage and resentment, and | | |
