A Lesson Before Dying
by Joseph Sargent
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Actor: Brent Jennings, Cicely Tyson, Don Cheadle, Irma P. Hall, Mekhi PhiferDirector: Joseph Sargent
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Celia D. Costas
Producer: Daniel Bernstein
Producer: Ellen Krass
Producer: Joel Stillerman
Producer: Robert Benedetti
Writer: Ann Peacock
Writer: Ernest J. Gaines
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-01-25
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Movie Reviews of A Lesson Before Dying
Movie Review: Bringing truth to the cliche', 'It's not always what it seems".
Summary: 4 Stars
The acting was realistic in the portrayal of the assumptions individuals come to in the event of the aftermath of a tragic circumstance. A sobering and thought provoking message to check out all the circumstances, without prejudice, before you come to conclusions.
Summary of A Lesson Before Dying
A young man convicted of a murder he did not commit has been sentenced to die. Now it falls upon a teacher to enrich a life he cannont save and in so doing somehow redeem his own by teaching one young man. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 01/23/2001 Starring: Don Cheadle Mekhi Phifer Run time: 101 minutes Rating: Pg13On a bright sunny day in 1948, Jefferson (Mekhi Phifer) sets off down the road to go catch some fish; by the end of the movie's opening sequence, he is the one who's been caught, and wrongly accused of the murder of a white shopkeeper. Racial inequality, at the time, is so pervasive in Louisiana that the white defense lawyer's argument at Jefferson's trial is that his client is not worthy of conviction: "You might just as soon put a hog in the 'lectric chair as this," he declares. Outraged by this statement, Jefferson's godmother (Irma P. Hall) does not want her godson to die as a hog. To this end she enlists the reluctant aid of the black community's teacher, Grant Wiggins (Don Cheadle), to teach him to "be a man." As Grant and Jefferson get to know each other (and the viewer gets to know them both), it's not clear which of them needs the lesson more. As in Ernest J. Gaines's award-winning novel, the movie goes beyond the conflict between the races to explore divisions that splinter the black community: education versus religion, dark skin versus light. And, thanks to masterful performances from Cheadle and Phifer as well as a thoughtful screenplay by Amy Peacock, A Lesson Before Dying goes even further, examining what it means to be human and the responsibility a man has to himself and to his community. Originally made for HBO, this adaptation of Gaines's novel richly deserves to be seen by a wider audience. --Larisa Lomacky Moore
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