Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

Name: Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall
Genre: Crime, Drama, TV Movie
Released: 2004-01-21
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 6.025
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield, Lee Thompson Young, Brenden Jefferson, Brenda Bazinet

2004

1h 35m

Crime Drama TV Movie

Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall

Writer: J. T. Allen

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.