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  1. 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 hi...

  2. 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 o...

    • 94 min
    • 15
    • Blaxploitation 5
  3. “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 man...

    • 90 min
    • 398
    • Hollywood Blockbuster Movies
  4. 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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    • Drama
    • Joseph Sargent
    • 1999-05-22
  5. 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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    • Joseph Sargent
    • PG-13
    • Don Cheadle
  6. A young man’s destiny becomes a teacher’s journey. 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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  8. May 22, 1999 · 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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