A Lesson Before Dying Streaming - Where to Watch Online

Now, before we get into all the details of how you can watch 'A Lesson Before Dying' right now, here are some key details about the Spanky Pictures, Ellen M. Krass Productions, HBO Films drama flick. A Lesson Before Dying starring Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall has a PG-13 rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 41 min. was calculated from active

Let’s set the scene for you... 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."

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