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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.
DVD / Blu-ray
Jan 25, 2000
Director
Producer
Studio
Spanky Pictures, Ellen M. Krass Productions, HBO Films
Cast
Full credits →D
Don Cheadle
Grant Wiggins
C
Cicely Tyson
Tante Lou
M
Mekhi Phifer
Jefferson
I
Irma P. Hall
Miss Emma
B
Brent Jennings
Reverend Ambrose
L
Lisa Arrindell
Vivian Baptiste
D
Dana Ivey
Edna Guidry
F
Frank Hoyt Taylor
Sheriff Guidry
S
Stuart Culpepper
Henri Pichot
V
Von Coulter
Farrell Jarreau
E
Elijah Kelley
Clarence
P
Patty Mack
Inez
J
Jameelah Nuriddin
Irene
