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A Lesson Before Dying
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Grant Wiggins (Don CheadIe) has become resigned to raciaI injustice in the south. Returning to his home town with a colIege
degree, he continues to teach in the same one-room schooI of his youth. Struggling to make a difference in an oppressive time
and place, Grant is caIled upon by two local women, Tante Lou and Miss Emma, to visit the town prison. There, Jefferson, a
simpIe young man, has been convicted of a murder he did not commit and sentenced to die like an animaI. Jefferson is fuIl of
rage and resentment, and the women are convinced that somehow he must be taught to die not Iike an animal, but like a man. It
faIls upon the teacher to enrich a life he cannot save and, in so doing, somehow redeem his own, by teaching one young man… |
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