Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
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3/3/2004Runtime
95 minsOverview
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.
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A sobering examination of one man's attempt at transformation and the limits of personal change within systemic forces. This is a film about the possibility and tragedy of redemption.
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Jamie Foxx
Stan 'Tookie' Williams
Lynn Whitfield
Barbara Becnel
Lee Thompson Young
Charles Becnel
Brenden Jefferson
Young Stan Williams
Brenda Bazinet
Barbara's Agent
Wes Williams
Tony Bogard
Greg Ellwand
Prison Chief
CCH Pounder
Winnie Mandela
Barbara Barnes-Hopkins
Mrs. Williams
Tom Barnett
Jim Kates
Joseph Pierre
17yr. old Ray Washington
Karl Campbell
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