Redeemer

Volunteering to teach literature to the inmates of the Dalesboro Correctional Institute, novelist Paul Freeman becomes fascinated with the plight of Charles Henderson, a former Black Panther serving a life sentence for a murder committed 20 years before., A writer volunteering at a prison finds a protégé in a convicted murderer, but his efforts to free the unfairly sentenced man are stymied by the victim’s sister., One woman’s faith will be one man’s salvation in this poignant and provocative drama from Hallmark Entertainment. When author Paul Freeman takes a job teaching creative writing to prisoners, he meets a remarkable student, Charles, who has spent the past twenty-four years in prison, serving a life sentence for murder. Convinced that Charles can be reintroduced to society, Paul must then convince the sister of the man who was murdered – she attends Charles’s parole hearing every year to make sure he stays behind bars., A writer (Matthew Modine) volunteering at a prison finds a protégé in a convicted murderer, but his efforts to free the unfairly sentenced man are stymied by the victim’s sister. Obba Babatunde, Michele Greene. David: Bruce Dinsmore. Alana: Emily VanCamp. Vince: Tyrone Benskin. Ben: Eugene Clark. Elsworth: Chip Chuipka. Peanut: Benz Antoine. Kendall: Christian Paul., A model prisoner, serving a life-sentence for murder, is contacted by the victim’s sister. What happens between them becomes a poignant drama of forgiveness and salvation., Volunteering to teach literature to the inmates of the Dalesboro Correctional Institute, novelist Paul Freeman (Matthew Modine) becomes fascinated with the plight of Charles Henderson (Obba Babatunde), a former Black Panther serving a life sentence for a murder committed 20 years before. Of the four Panthers involved in the killing, Charles is the only one still doing time, a fact that leads Paul to believe that there may be a best-selling book in Henderson’s story. As he digs deeper, Paul discovers that Charles was most likely the victim of a complicated governmental cover-up — not to mention his own sense of honesty and integrity. Even so, all hopes for Charles’ redemption (and possible release) rests in the hands of Sharon Davidson (Michelle Greene), the embittered sister of the man killed in that long-ago Black Panther assault. Produced for the USA cable network, Redeemer was first broadcast on March 26, 2002; ironically, the film aired a mere few weeks after real-life ’60s black activist H. Rap Brown was sentenced to life imprisonment on a murder charge.