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Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

6,0 /10 (60 Votes)
2004 EN 95 min

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.

Release date

21/01/2004

Votes

60

Popularity

0.8

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

95 min

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John Chard

John Chard

2015-04-05

⭐ 6

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 towards the redemptive angle? Is the monster side of Williams soft soaped? Sadly yes it is. We don't need to see continual violence thrust in our faces to know Williams was a very …

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