A Lesson before Dying | Adaptations
The HBO Original Movie, A Lesson before Dying, aired on May 22,1999. The film stars Don Cheadle as Grant Wiggins, Mekhi Phifer as Jefferson, Irma P. Hall as Miss Emma, and Cicely Tyson as Tante Lou. Cheadle received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for this role. The film won Emmys in 1999 for Best Television Movie and Best Writing.
In a review in the Christian Century, May 21, 1999, M. S. Mason says that the question at the heart of the novel and the film is "How shall we live?" He calls the movie "an excellent, beautifully...
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