A Lesson Before Dying 1999  PG-13, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall, Brent Jennings, Lisa Arrindell Anderson, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Stuart Culpepper, Patty Mack, Elijah Kelley
Set in the South during the 1940s, Don Cheadle plays the role of Grant Wiggins–a teacher, who at the request of a condemned man's mother, Miss Emma (Irma P. Hall) and aunt Tante Lou (Cicely Tyson), goes to visit Jefferson (Mekhi Phifer) daily while he awaits execution. Jefferson was wrongly convicted in a brutal trial that took away his dignity; it falls on Wiggins to help restore this black man's self esteem.
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Nightjohn 1996  PG-13, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles Burnett
Cast: Beau Bridges, Carl Lumbly, Allison Jones, Lorraine Toussaint, Kathleen York, Patty Mack, Robin McLamb-Vaughn
During the early 19th century, African slave Nightjohn (Carl Lumbly) teaches a young slave girl, Sarny (Allison Jones), that knowledge is power–despite the fact that literacy among slaves is not allowed on plantations in the South.
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The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn 1999 PG, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gregg Champion
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Dianne Wiest, Mary-Louise Parker, George Newbern, Roxzane T. Mims, Afemo Omilami, Bernie Casey, Patty Mack, John Bedford Lloyd, Sharon Blackwood
Noah Dearborn (Sidney Poitier) is a 91-year-old carpenter who decides to stand and fight for his 35 acres of Georgia land despite plans of a developer to buy up the surrounding area.
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| 1. A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
2. Nightjohn (1996)
3. The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
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