Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

• 6.0 Crime
• 2004-03-03
• 95 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Jamie Foxx (Stan 'Tookie' Williams) Lynn Whitfield (Barbara Becnel) Lee Thompson Young (Charles Becnel) Brenden Jefferson (Young Stan Williams) Brenda Bazinet (Barbara's Agent) Wes Williams (Tony Bogard) Greg Ellwand (Prison Chief) Barbara Barnes-Hopkins (Mrs. Williams) Tom Barnett (Jim Kates) Joseph Pierre (17yr. old Ray Washington)

Director:

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Writer:

J.T. Allen