Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

2004 95 min ★ 6.0 Crime, Drama, TV Movie

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

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 Mandela

Barbara Barnes-Hopkins

Mrs. Williams

Tom Barnett

Jim Kates

Details

Director

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Reviews

J

John Chard

April 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 fil...