Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
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Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

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Directed by: Vondie Curtis-Hall

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.

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  • John Chard (Rated: 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 ...

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