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Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

6.0(62)20041h 35m2

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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  • street gang

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    • PremiereSundance Film Festival21 Jan 2004
    • PremierePan African Film Festival5 Feb 2004
    • TVFX11 Apr 2004

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Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story was released on 21 January 2004.

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    John Chard

    4/5/2015

    6/10

    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 tow…

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