Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004)

EnglishFilm200495 minCrime, Drama, TV Movie★ 6/10

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.

Directed by

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Starring

Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield, Lee Thompson Young

Music

Terence Blanchard

Released

2004-01-21

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