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Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

Not Rated Crime Drama TV Movie

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield, Lee Thompson Young, Brenden Jefferson, Brenda Bazinet

Writer: J.T. Allen

Release Date:
March 3, 2004
Ratings:
6.0 / 10
Director:
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Companies:
N/A

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.