Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004)

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

Stan 'Tookie' Williams
Jamie Foxx
Barbara Becnel
Lynn Whitfield
Deuce-Five
Karl Campbell
Guard Morales
Martin Roach
Charles Becnel
Lee Thompson Young
Young Stan Williams
Brenden Jefferson
Barbara's Agent
Brenda Bazinet
Tony Bogard
W Wes Williams
Prison Chief
Greg Ellwand
Mrs. Williams
B Barbara Barnes-Hopkins
Jim Kates
T Tom Barnett
17yr. old Ray Washington
Joseph Pierre

Crew

Director
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Production Manager
G Greg Copeland
Writer
J J.T. Allen