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Movie Name Amazing
Grace
Released 16 Sept. 2006 (première); 23 Feb. 2007 (USA)
Genre Thriller
Runtime 111 minutes
Rating PG
Director(s) Michael Apted
Producer(s) Patricia Heaton, David Hunt, Terrence Malick, Edward R.
Pressman, Ken Wales
Writer(s) Steven Knight
Distribution IDP
Country UK, USA
Language English |
Amazing Grace Plot
Amazing Grace is a 2007 film directed by Michael Apted about the
anti-slavery movement in 19th Century Britain led by the famous abolitionist
William Wilberforce.
The film will star Ioan Gruffudd as William Wilberforce, Albert Finney as
John Newton, Rufus Sewell as Thomas Clarkson, Benedict Cumberbatch as
William Pitt the Younger, Romola Garai as Barbara Spooner, the woman William
Wilberforce married, and Ciarán Hinds as Sir Banastre Tarleton. Richard
Bailey. Michael Gambon also stars in the Walden Media feature.
The film premièred at the closing of the Toronto Film Festival on September
16, 2006 and its US première was at the opening of the Heartland Film
Festival, Indianapolis, Indiana on October 19, 2006, after which director
Michael Apted participated in a question and answer session.
The film is scheduled for wider release on February 23, 2007 through IDP, to
coincide with the 200th anniversary of the date the British Parliament voted
to ban the slave trade.
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