RRedemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

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Play Time: 95 mins
Crime, Drama, TV Movie
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.

Status: Released (2004-03-03)
Awards:12 wins & 8 nominations
Screen:J.T. Allen
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Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
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John Chard

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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 ....

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