A Lesson Before Dying
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

Don Cheadle
Cicely Tyson
Mekhi Phifer
Irma P. Hall
Brent Jennings
Lisa Arrindell
Dana Ivey
Frank Hoyt Taylor
Stuart Culpepper
Von Coulter
Elijah Kelley
Joseph Sargent
Robert Benedetti
Ann Peacock