Freedom
John Newton's Amazing Grace
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 14, 2015
- Originally Released: 2015
- Label: Arc Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Cuba Gooding Jr. & William Sadler | |
| Performer: | David Rasche, Sharon Leal, Terrence Mann & Michael Goodwin | |
| Directed by | Peter Cousens | |
| Edited by | Ray Hubley | |
| Screenwriting by | Timothy A. Chey | |
| Composition by | James Lavino | |
| Produced by | Timothy A. Chey | |
| Director of Photography: | Dean Cundey |
Entertainment Reviews:
53%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 317
The film leaves us with the impression that slaves' survival had more to do with sheer luck than dogged resilience.
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Los Angeles Times
Peter Cousens' mawkish Freedom is an apologia for the white Christian people who helped slaves escape, or at least wrote songs to make them feel better.
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SF Weekly
Rating: 2/5 --
Performances are fine, and the film is well made, but it's too much of a hybrid to be successful.
At the Movies (Australia)
Rating: 1.5/4 --
A schmaltzy, deeply sentimentalized drama about American slavery and the rise of the Underground Railroad.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: 1/5 --
The film tries to have the scope of "12 Years a Slave." But it's ruined by the sanctimonious songs that turn the drama into a half-baked musical. Much worse: the filmmakers' need to show that not all whites employed in the slave trade were evil.
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New York Daily News
Rating: C- --
The preaching is earnest and the intentions are good, but the corn is high and the presentation is amateurish.
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Detroit News
Rating: 2/4 --
Ambitious period piece without the budget or the script to cover as much of the Abolition Movement as it tries to fit in.
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Tribune News Service
Rating: 2/5 --
Noble in intention, this story of slavery and the origin of John Newton's hymn Amazing Grace opens with style but then steadily sinks into messy theatricality, overwhelmed by its own earnestness.
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Screenwize
Product Description:
Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave, Samuel Woodward and his family, escape from the Monroe Plantation near Richmond, Virginia. A secret network of ordinary people known as the Underground Railroad guide the family on their journey north to Canada. They are relentlessly pursued by the notorious slave hunter Plimpton. Hunted like a dog and haunted by the unthinkable suffering he and his forbears have endured, Samuel is forced to decide between revenge or freedom. 100 years earlier in 1748, John Newton the Captain of a slave trader sails from Africa with a cargo of slaves, bound for America. On board is Samuel's great grandfather whose survival is tied to the fate of Captain Newton. The voyage changes Newton's life forever and he creates a legacy that will inspire Samuel and the lives of millions for generations to come. -- Description provided by TMDb
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