A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.

Release date : 1999-05-22

Production country :

United States of America

Production company :

Spanky Pictures,

Ellen M. Krass Productions,

HBO Films

Status : Released

Durasi : 101 Min.

Popularity : 0.495

5.2

Total Vote : 14

Drama

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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.

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