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.
- 6.0
- 2004
- Released
- 1h 35m
Jamie Foxx
Stan 'Tookie' Williams
Lynn Whitfield
Barbara Becnel
Lee Thompson Young
Charles Becnel
Brenden Jefferson
Young Stan Williams
Brenda Bazinet
Barbara's Agent
Wes Williams
Tony Bogard
Greg Ellwand
Prison Chief
CCH Pounder
Winnie MandelaBarbara Barnes-Hopkins
Mrs. WilliamsTom Barnett
Jim Kates
Joseph Pierre
17yr. old Ray Washington
Karl Campbell
Deuce-Five
Martin Roach
Guard Morales
David Fraser
Strange ManKahmaara Armatrading
Stan Williams (9-12)Garfield Williams
Envoy
Aaron Meeks
Banger #1Donovan Palma
Banger #2
Philip Craig
Warden Gomez
Rosemary Dunsmore
Warden Woodford
Shane Daly
Associate Warden ScanlonCalvin Green
Balfour ArmstrongAlison MacLeod
Mrs. MooreHadley Sandiford
Ancient Man
Scott Wickware
Security DetectiveJohn Bayliss
Robert Lee Morgan
Barbara Gordon
Mrs. Morgan
Laura de Carteret
Morgan SpokespersonReg Dreger
Rosen ExecutiveDerek Keurvorst
Professor Keach
Dan Duran
Campus Reporter
Liz West
Publisher #3J.C. Kenny
TV Reporter #1Tim Gammon
TV Reporter #2
Stefanie Samuels
Female Guard
Arnold Pinnock
Guard #1
Ted Ludzik
Guard #2
Jean Daigle
Guard #3Stephen Lee Wright
Visiting Room GuardTommy Chang
Junior GuardPaul McGuire
ReporterReleased
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Reviews
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 fil