Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
(2004)
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.
Keywords
Where to watch
Top Billed Cast
Crew
Reviews
John Chard
⭐ 6/10April 5, 2015
Red Light - Green Light
If solely judged on Tookie Williams during his prison years, Redemption is a cracker-jack piece of film. It drives from the heart a sincerity that here was a man, that basically unleashed gangland hell on America, who desperately craved redemption from his prison cell. He strives to do good, to help communities by way of education in book and oration form, but is the film heavily biased towards the redemptive angle? Is …
read the rest.
Recommended Movies
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—