Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
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.
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Cast
Jamie Foxx
Stan 'Tookie' Williams
Lynn Whitfield
Barbara Becnel
Lee Thompson Young
Charles Becnel
Brenden Jefferson
Young Stan Williams
Brenda Bazinet
Barbara's Agent
Greg Ellwand
Prison Chief
CCH Pounder
Winnie Mandela
Joseph Pierre
17yr. old Ray Washington
Karl Campbell
Deuce-Five
Martin Roach
Guard Morales
David Fraser
Strange Man
Aaron Meeks
Banger #1
Philip Craig
Warden Gomez
Rosemary Dunsmore
Warden Woodford
Shane Daly
Associate Warden Scanlon
Scott Wickware
Security Detective
Barbara Gordon
Mrs. Morgan
Laura de Carteret
Morgan Spokesperson
Dan Duran
Campus Reporter
Liz West
Publisher #3
Crew
- Director
- Vondie Curtis-Hall
- Writers
- J. T. Allen
- Cinematography
- David Greene
- Composer
- Terence Blanchard
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John Chard
April 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 the monster side of Williams soft soaped? Sadly ye…