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A Lesson Before Dying

Drama
★5.2

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. 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.

Joseph Sargent

Director

Ernest J. Gaines,Ann Peacock

Writers

Robert Benedetti

Producers

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Budget

$0

Revenue

22-05-1999

Release Date

US

Country

5.2

Rating

14

Votes

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Age Rating

101 min

Runtime

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Status

English

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Director
Joseph Sargent

Joseph Sargent

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Sargent (July 22, 1925 – December 22, 2014) is an American film director. He has directed many television movies, but his best known feature film works are probably White Lightning, MacArthur, Nightmares and Jaws: The Revenge, with his most popular film being The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. He has won four Emmy Awards. He is the father of anime dubbing voice actress Lia Sargent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Sargent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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