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
Liz West
as Publisher #3
Joseph Pierre
as 17yr. old Ray Washington
Karl Campbell
as Deuce-Five
David Fraser
as Strange Man
Scott Wickware
as Security Detective
Laura de Carteret
as Morgan Spokesperson
Dan Duran
as Campus Reporter
Rosemary Dunsmore
as Warden Woodford
CCH Pounder
as Winnie Mandela
Barbara Gordon
as Mrs. Morgan
Stefanie Samuels
as Female Guard
Arnold Pinnock
as Guard #1
Aaron Meeks
as Banger #1
Ted Ludzik
as Guard #2
Jean Daigle
as Guard #3
Jamie Foxx
as Stan 'Tookie' Williams
Lynn Whitfield
as Barbara Becnel
Lee Thompson Young
as Charles Becnel
Greg Ellwand
as Prison Chief
Martin Roach
as Guard Morales
Shane Daly
as Associate Warden Scanlon
Brenden Jefferson
as Young Stan Williams
Brenda Bazinet
as Barbara's Agent
Philip Craig
as Warden Gomez
