A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying (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. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and the aunt of the local schoolteacher convince school teacher go to the convicted man's cell each day to try to reaffirm to him that he is not an animal but a man with dignity.

Data lansării
1999-05-22
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (19)
Durată
1 h 41 min
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Dramă
Regizor
Joseph Sargent

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A Lesson Before Dying is a 1999 American made-for-television drama film adapted from the 1993 novel of the same name by Ernest J. Gaines. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie and a Peabody Award.

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