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.
A Lesson Before Dying has generally received positive reviews.
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A Lesson Before Dying was released in 1999 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 15 reviews, giving A Lesson Before Dying (1999) an average rating of 64%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 87%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 77%. Professional critics were more impressed with A Lesson Before Dying than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 64%, A Lesson Before Dying is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1999, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1999 with similar scores include films like Blue Streak, Big Daddy and Bringing Out the Dead.
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