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Based on the true story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, the founder of the Los Angeles gang known as the Crips, and the transformation he underwent while serving time on death row.
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When her son Charles falls in with the infamous L.A. street gang The Crips, Professor Barbara Becnel (Whitfield) decides to write a book about them. Eventually, she lands an interview with the gang's founder, Stan Tookie Williams (Foxx), who's imprisoned in San Quentin. Their real-life meeting marks the beginning of redemption for Tookie - a path that will eventually earn the reformed gang-banger two Nobel Prize nominations.
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