Where to Watch A Lesson Before Dying (1999)

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Released May 22nd, 1999, 'A Lesson Before Dying' stars Irma P. Hall The PG-13 movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 41 min, and received a score of 50 (out of 100) on TMDb, which compiled reviews from 15 knowledgeable s.

Curious to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "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." .