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Cast: Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Northam, Pete Postlethwaite, John Ortiz, Morgan Freeman, Tomas Milian, Stellan Skarsgård, Arliss Howard, David Paymer, Anna Paquin, Nigel Hawthorne, Austin Pendleton, Razaaq Adoti
Director: Steven Spielberg
Genre: Drama, History
Release Date: December 12, 1997
MPAA Rating: R
Runtime: 2hrs 32min
Studio: Dreamworks SKG

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review by Count_Orlok_22. April 27, 2009

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There Are Moments in History When Freedom Must Be Taken

In 1997 director Steven Spielberg (Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Schindler's List) would release his latest film through Dreamworks pictures, a studio he co-founded with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen in 1994. Spielberg's first film for Dreamworks was the powerful and harrowing historical drama Amistad, which told the amazing true story of a group of Africans who fought for their freedom in American courts after having risen up against their captors. The film's history dates back to … more

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review by vemartin. December 26, 2000

Amistad:Speilberg gets it right!

Pros: Powerful performances, moving imagery, great history lesson Cons: None... "Give us free, give us free, give us free, give us free" (give us freedom, give us freedom, give us freedom, give us freedom). So Cinque shouted in a crowded courthouse in New haven CT, and so it was to be; but not without a struggle, and a court fight that would lead the young United States a step closer to the Civil War of 1860. WE … more

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