A Lesson Before Dying 25 years old
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.
Credits
A Lesson Before Dying Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Don Cheadle He was 34, now 59 years old | as Grant Wiggins |
| Cicely Tyson She was 74, now 99 years old | as Tante Lou |
| Irma P. Hall She was 63, now 89 years old | as Miss Emma |
| Mekhi Phifer He was 24, now 49 years old | as Jefferson |
| Lisa Arrindell She was 30, now 55 years old | as Vivian Baptiste |
| Dana Ivey She was 57, now 83 years old | as Edna Guidry |
| Elijah Kelley He was 12, now 38 years old | as Clarence |
| Brent Jennings He was 48, now 73 years old | as Reverend Ambrose |
| Wynton Yates | as Louis Washington |
| Stuart Culpepper | as Henri Pichot |
| Von Coulter | as Farrell Jarreau |
| Frank Hoyt Taylor He was 46, now 71 years old | as Sheriff Guidry |
A Lesson Before Dying Crew
| Name | Department |
|---|---|
| Ann Peacock as Teleplay. | Writing |
| Ernest J. Gaines as Novel. He was 66 (86) years old when He died | Writing |
A Lesson Before Dying (25 years)
A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.
- Release day: Saturday, May 22, 1999
- Runtime: 101 minutes