Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
Release: 2004-03-03
·Runtime: 95m
·★ 6.0
Crime
Drama
TV Movie
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Cast
Scott Wickware
as Security Detective
Dan Duran
as Campus Reporter
Brenda Bazinet
as Barbara's Agent
Liz West
as Publisher #3
Jamie Foxx
as Stan 'Tookie' Williams
Lynn Whitfield
as Barbara Becnel
Philip Craig
as Warden Gomez
Lee Thompson Young
as Charles Becnel
Brenden Jefferson
as Young Stan Williams
Martin Roach
as Guard Morales
Barbara Gordon
as Mrs. Morgan
Laura de Carteret
as Morgan Spokesperson
Joseph Pierre
as 17yr. old Ray Washington
Rosemary Dunsmore
as Warden Woodford
Greg Ellwand
as Prison Chief
CCH Pounder
as Winnie Mandela
Aaron Meeks
as Banger #1
Stefanie Samuels
as Female Guard
Arnold Pinnock
as Guard #1
Karl Campbell
as Deuce-Five
Ted Ludzik
as Guard #2
Jean Daigle
as Guard #3
David Fraser
as Strange Man
Shane Daly
as Associate Warden Scanlon
