Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004)

Directed by

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Genre

drama fiction

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 60 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Stan Tookie Williams co-founded the Crips gang in Los Angeles. The film shows his violent street life and his time in prison, where he worked to help stop gang violence. It covers his story up to his execution by lethal injection.

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What happens

Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story is a 2004 American biographical crime drama television film directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall, written by J.T. Allen, and starring Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield, Lee Thompson Young and CCH Pounder. The film premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and was later broadcast on the FX network on April 11, 2004. The film deals with the life of Stanley Tookie Williams (Foxx), the co-founding member of the Crips street gang. Along with showing his life in the streets and his time in San Quentin State Prison, it shows the work Williams did while incarcerated to help decrease gang violence in the world. The film was shot in 2003 while Williams was still imprisoned. On December 13, 2005, Williams was executed by lethal injection. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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