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When Grant learns of Jefferson (Mekhi Phifer), a young black man falsely accused of killing a white shop owner, he reluctantly visits the condemned prisoner. Gradually, the two form a friendship ...
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A Lesson Before Dying Reviews. The remarkable Cheadle, stuck...
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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
A Lesson Before Dying HBO has yet another winner with its latest original movie, based on the critically acclaimed book by Ernest J. Gaines about a man awaiting his execution in 1948...
Even though the movie is a made for TV HBO movie, it has some high-quality actors like Don Cheadle and Mekhi Pheifer with solid performances that isn't overly sentimental or preachy about the morals of right and wrong and injustice of the 1940s segregated South.
A Lesson Before Dying Reviews. The remarkable Cheadle, stuck teaching in the same school where he'd first dreamed of escaping from Jim Crow to college, is prevailed on by Cicely Tyson and Irma...
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.
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May 24, 1999 · The remarkable Cheadle, stuck teaching in the same school where he’d first dreamed of escaping from Jim Crow to college, is prevailed on by Cicely Tyson and Irma Hall to comfort the boy in jail. A...
