| Product Summary | | Publisher: HBO | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00026359157028 | | Buy.com Sku: 40129512 | | Item#: VNV5YS | | Category Keywords: Based On A Novel | Rating:  |
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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Biographies, Scene Access
Based on the New York Times No. 1 bestselling novel and winner of the National Book Critics
Circle Award, Don Cheadle and Cicely Tyson star in A LESSON BEFORE DYING. Grant Wiggins (Don Cheadle) has become resigned to racial injustice in the south. Returning to his home town with a college degree, he continues to teach in the same one-room school of his youth. Struggling to make a difference in an oppressive time and place, Grant is called upon by two local 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 like an animal. Jefferson is full of rage and resentment, and the women are
convinced that somehow he must be taught to die not like an animal, but like a man. It falls
upon the teacher to enrich a life he cannot save and, in so doing, somehow redeem his own, by teaching one young man... A LESSON BEFORE DYING.
Editor's Note
An uplifting tale of a black man (Phifer) in the 1940's South who is wrongly accused of killing a white man. His attorney's only defense is that he is an animal, a hog, and, therefore, is unaccountable for his actions. Predictably, he is convicted of the crime. Distraught in a prison cell, his family convinces the local school teacher (Cheadle) to visit him and restore his deflated dignity. Based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines.
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Single Side - Single Layer | | Full Frame - 1.33 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital Stereo - English | | Dolby Digital Stereo - Spanish | | Additional Release Material:
| Trailers: Theatrical Trailer | | Interactive Features:
| Interactive Menus | | Scene Access | | Text/Photo Galleries:
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Release Information
|  | Studio: HBO |
| Release Date: 10/20/2009 |
| Running Time: 101 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1999 | | Catalog ID: 91570 | | UPC: 00026359157028 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
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