27 Jun 1991
Europa
Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.
A Lesson Before Dying
A young man's destiny becomes a teacher's journey.
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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Don Cheadle Grant Wiggins
Cicely Tyson Tante Lou
Mekhi Phifer Jefferson
Irma P. Hall Miss Emma
Brent Jennings Reverend Ambrose
Lisa Arrindell Vivian Baptiste
Dana Ivey Edna Guidry
Frank Hoyt Taylor Sheriff Guidry
Stuart Culpepper Henri Pichot
Von Coulter Farrell Jarreau
Elijah Kelley Clarence
Patty Mack Inez
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