Ioan Gruffudd

Romola Garai

Benedict Cumberbatch

Albert Finney

Michael Gambon

Rufus Sewell

Youssou N'Dour

Ciarán Hinds

Toby Jones

Nicholas Farrell

Sylvestra Le Touzel

Jeremy Swift

Stephen Campbell Moore

Bill Paterson

Nicholas Day

Georgie Glen

Nicholas Woodeson

Tom Fisher

Richard Ridings

David Hunt

David Toole

Alex Blake

Angie Wallis

Harry Audley

Chris Barnes

Tom Knight

Andrew Whipp

Andrew Neil

Estelle Morgan

Philip Dunbar

Adam Woodroffe

Joseph Traynor

Simon Delaney

Neville Phillips

Eki Maria

Daniel Naprous

Peter White

Steven Knight

Michael Apted

David Arnold

Rick Shaine

Charles Wood

Remi Adefarasin

Terrence Malick

Louis Elman

Abigail Barbier

Micheal Flaherty

Stephen Moore

Mark Cooper

Ken Wales

Edward R. Pressman

James Clayton

Duncan Reid

Jeanney Kim

Mark Henson

Patricia Heaton

Jenny Shircore

Nina Gold

Jacqueline Bhavnani

David Betancourt

Matthew Gray

Julia Vernon

Suzanne Jansen

Susan Howard

Jenny Beavan

Dawn Fintor

Stephen Bream

Jo Adams

Keith Bilderbeck

Mandy Gold

Loulia Sheppard

Barbara Taylor

Paul Massey

Alicia Stevenson

Robert Troy

David Giammarco

Nina Hartstone

Eliza Solesbury

Simon Finney

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Amazing Grace

Samuel Goldwyn Films

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Bristol Bay Productions

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slavery

based on true story

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british history

18th century

slave trade

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1790s

Andres Gomez

The cut is a little bit tangled making hard to follow every hop in time.

Otherwise, script and photography are good and the cast does a good job.

CinemaSerf

Aside from a few charismatic scenes from Sir Michael Gambon as the sagely if rather devious Foreign Secretary Lord Edward Fox, the rest of this really struggles to elevate itself from the doldrums of it's rather dreary cast. It possibly doesn't help that much of the drama is set in a wet and gloomy 19th century England but Ioan Gruffudd as the pioneering abolitionist William Wilberforce comes across as weedy and lacklustre. The same can be said for Benedict Cumberbatch's Prime Minister William Pitt and for the most part this felt like a chronological history lesson instead of a drama that enthused me with the controversial issues of a debate that took all but a decade to reach a meaningful parliamentary vote. There is little of substance to what debate there was and whilst the film makes no bones about the position it takes, it does not flesh out the arguments out using rigorous discussion or characterisation to help illustrate just why it all took so long; just why the populace were indifferent to these atrocities. I found that this just overly relied on our own repugnance for the subject matter to bother developing the themes interestingly and provocatively - and I found myself struggling with it as it neared the two hour mark. A serious biopic of this visionary and dedicated man and of his friends and of his opponents would certainly make for compelling viewing - sadly, though, this isn't that!

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Written by Andres Gomez on Tue Oct 21 2014

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