Title A lesson before dying / Spanky Pictures production in association with Ellen M. Krass Productions ; producer, Robert Benedetti ; teleplay by Ann Peacock ; directed by Joseph Sargent.

Publication Info.	New York : HBO Home Video, [1999]
	©1999

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	DVD LESSON	Check Shelf
Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Department	DVD LESSON	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Media Room DVDs & Blu-rays	DVD LESSON	Check Shelf

Description	1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Note	Based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines.
Credits	Director of photography, Donald M. Morgan ; editor, Michael Brown ; music, Ernest Troost.
Cast	Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer.
Summary	A frustrated teacher in a southern town, whose education is being underutilized, finds his own purpose in helping bring meaning to the last days of a young man due to be executed. In teaching one person to die with dignity, he redeems himself.
Audience	Rated PG-13
System Details	DVD.
Language	Closed-captioned.
Note	GMD: videorecording.
Subject	Feature films.
	Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
	African American men -- Louisiana -- Fiction.
	Death row inmates -- Louisiana -- Fiction.
	Friendship -- Louisiana -- Fiction.
	Louisiana -- Race relations -- Fiction.
Added Author	Tyson, Cicely.
	Phifer, Mekhi, 1975-
	Cheadle, Don.
	Sargent, Joseph, 1925-2014
	Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-2019. Lesson before dying.
	HBO Video (Firm)
	Spanky Pictures (Firm)
ISBN	0783117159
Music No.	91570 HBO Home Video

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