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A Lesson Before Dying
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Grant Wiggins (Don Cheadle) has become resigned to racial injustice in the south. Returning to his home town with a colIege
degree, he continues to teach in the same one-room schooI of his youth. Struggling to make a difference in an oppressive time
and pIace, Grant is caIIed upon by two Iocal women, Tante Lou and Miss Emma, to visit the town prison. There, Jefferson, a
simple young man, has been convicted of a murder he did not commit and sentenced to die Iike an animaI. Jefferson is fuIl of
rage and resentment, and the women are convinced that somehow he must be taught to die not Iike an animal, but Iike a man. It
faIls upon the teacher to enrich a life he cannot save and, in so doing, somehow redeem his own, by teaching one young man… |
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