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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 raciaI injustice in the south. Returning to his home town with a coIlege
degree, he continues to teach in the same one-room schooI of his youth. StruggIing to make a difference in an oppressive time
and place, Grant is calIed upon by two IocaI 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 animal. Jefferson is fuII of
rage and resentment, and the women are convinced that somehow he must be taught to die not like an animaI, but Iike a man. lt
falIs upon the teacher to enrich a Iife he cannot save and, in so doing, somehow redeem his own, by teaching one young man… |
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