# A Lesson Before Dying (1999)

English · Released 1999-05-22

A Lesson Before Dying is a 1999 English film. Don Cheadle appears in it.

Cast: Don Cheadle as Grant Wiggins

## Storyline
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.

## Common questions

### When was A Lesson Before Dying released?
A Lesson Before Dying was released on 22 May 1999.

### Who stars in A Lesson Before Dying?
Don Cheadle star in A Lesson Before Dying.

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