tanty
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.
Amazing Grace
- Drama
9/16/2006
117
PG
Behind the song you love is a story you will never forget.
The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.
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- $32,120,360
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Cast
Ioan GruffuddWilliam Wilberforce
Romola GaraiBarbara Spooner- Benedict CumberbatchWilliam Pitt
- Albert FinneyJohn Newton
- Michael GambonLord Charles Fox
- Rufus SewellThomas Clarkson
- Youssou N'DourOlaudah Equiano
- Ciarán HindsLord Tarleton
- Toby JonesDuke of Clarence
- Nicholas FarrellHenry Thornton
- Sylvestra Le TouzelMarianne Thornton
- Jeremy SwiftRichard the Butler
- Stephen Campbell MooreJames Stephen
- Bill PatersonLord Dundas
- Nicholas DaySir William Dolben
- Georgie GlenHannah More
Reviews
Geronimo1967
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...