Where to Watch A Lesson Before Dying (1999) Online

Want to watch 'A Lesson Before Dying' in the comfort of your own home? Tracking down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the Joseph Sargent-directed movie via subscription can be tricky, so we here at Moviefone want to take the pressure off.

Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription alternatives - along with the availability of 'A Lesson Before Dying' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'A Lesson Before Dying' right now, here are some finer points about the Spanky Pictures, Ellen M. Krass Productions, HBO Films drama flick.

Released May 22nd, 1999, 'A Lesson Before Dying' stars Don Cheadle, Cicely Tyson, Mekhi Phifer, Irma P. Hall The PG-13 movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 41 min, and received a user score of 52 (out of 100) on TMDb, which put together reviews from 14 knowledgeable users.

Want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "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." .