Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story
Directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall
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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Jamie FoxxStan 'Tookie' Williams
Lynn WhitfieldBarbara Becnel
Lee Thompson YoungCharles Becnel
Brenden JeffersonYoung Stan Williams
Brenda BazinetBarbara's Agent
Greg EllwandPrison Chief
CCH PounderWinnie Mandela
Joseph Pierre17yr. old Ray Washington
Karl CampbellDeuce-FiveExplore the crew
- Director
- Vondie Curtis-Hall
- Writer
- J. T. Allen
- Original Music Composer
- Terence Blanchard
- Director of Photography
- David Greene