Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story

March. 03,2004      
Rating:
6.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Jamie Foxx as  Stan 'Tookie' Williams
Lynn Whitfield as  Barbara Becnel
Lee Thompson Young as  Charles Becnel
Brenden Jefferson as  Young Stan Williams
Brenda Bazinet as  Barbara's Agent
Greg Ellwand as  Prison Chief
Joseph Pierre as  17yr. old Ray Washington
Karl Campbell as  Deuce-Five

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