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Amistad
Freedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some moments when it must be taken.
[1997,
USA] from $1.99
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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
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Drama |
History |
Mystery |
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Morgan Freeman |
Nigel Hawthorne |
Anthony Hopkins |
Djimon Hounsou |
Matthew McConaughey |
David Paymer |
Pete Postlethwaite |
Stellan Skarsgård |
Razaaq Adoti |
Abu Bakaar Fofanah |
Anna Paquin |
Tomas Milian |
Chiwetel Ejiofor |
Derrick N. Ashong |
Geno Silva |
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| Directors: |
Steven Spielberg |
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Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.
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Drama |
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| Actors: |
Sophie Vavasseur |
Niall Beagan |
Hugh McDonagh |
Pierce Brosnan |
Mairead Devlin |
Frank Kelly |
Claire Mullan |
Alvaro Lucchesi |
Garrett Keogh |
Daithi O'Suilleabhain |
Andrea Irvine |
Marian Quinn |
Karen Ardiff |
Julianna Margulies |
Bosco Hogan |
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| Directors: |
Bruce Beresford |
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Truman Capote wrote the 'non-fiction novel' from which the film is drawn, using the novelist's craft to render reality. The reality was that at two a.m. on November 15, 1959 in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were roused from their sleep, bound and gagged, and then brutally murdered by two unknown assailants. After the latters' capture, sentencing and imprisonment prior to execution, Capote researched the case thoroughly, spent weeks talking with the prisoners, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, jurors, police, friends and neighbors, trying to unearth why such a senseless act was committed, and what society's response might have been.
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Crime |
Drama |
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| Actors: |
Robert Blake |
Scott Wilson |
John Forsythe |
Paul Stewart |
Gerald S. O'Loughlin |
Jeff Corey |
John Gallaudet |
James Flavin |
Charles McGraw |
Will Geer |
John McLiam |
Ruth Storey |
Brenda Currin |
Paul Hough |
Vaughn Taylor |
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Richard Brooks |
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