Released:
1999-05-22

Overview:
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.

Director:
Joseph Sargent

Runtime:
1h 41min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Don Cheadle
  as
  Grant Wiggins
• 
  Cicely Tyson
  as
  Tante Lou
• 
  Mekhi Phifer
  as
  Jefferson
• 
  Irma P. Hall
  as
  Miss Emma
• 
  Brent Jennings
  as
  Reverend Ambrose