Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (TV)
Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall
Cast: Barbara Barnes-Hopkins, Brenda Bazinet, Brenden Jefferson, Greg Ellwand, Jamie Foxx, Lee Thompson Young, Lynn Whitfield, Wes Williams
Synopsis:
Cast: Barbara Barnes-Hopkins, Brenda Bazinet, Brenden Jefferson, Greg Ellwand, Jamie Foxx, Lee Thompson Young, Lynn Whitfield, Wes Williams
Synopsis:
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.
