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Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes80%
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do.
19 audience votes
Key crew
- Joseph SargentDirector
Cast
- Don CheadleGrant Wiggins
- Cicely TysonTante Lou
- Mekhi PhiferJefferson
- Irma P. HallMiss Emma
- Brent JenningsReverend Ambrose
- Lisa ArrindellVivian Baptiste
- Dana IveyEdna Guidry
- Frank Hoyt TaylorSheriff Guidry
- Stuart CulpepperHenri Pichot
- Von CoulterFarrell Jarreau
- Elijah KelleyClarence
- Wynton YatesLouis Washington