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Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004)
Directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall
Overview
Redemption tells the story of Stan “Tookie” Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children’s novels encouraging peace and anti-violence resolutions which earned him multiple Nobel Peace Prize nominations. After exhausting all forms of appeal, Tookie was executed by lethal injection.
Length 95 minutes
Actors
Jamie Foxx | Lynn Whitfield | Lee Thompson Young | Brenden Richard Jefferson | Brenda Bazinet | Wes Williams | Greg Ellwand | Barbara Barnes-Hopkins | Tom Barnett | Joseph Pierre | Karl Campbell | Martin Roach