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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 35 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Originally Released: 2014
- 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:
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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 317
Rating: 2/4 --
This is one of those movies that is as dull as it is well-meaning and man, is it ever well-meaning.
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RogerEbert.com
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: 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
"Freedom" takes a compelling chapter in American history - the flight of slaves from Southern bondage to Canada via the Underground Railroad - and flattens its drama.
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New York Times
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
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
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: 2/5 --
Religious historical film has disturbing, graphic violence.
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Common Sense Media
Product Description:
Peter Cousens directs this drama about two generations of a slave family in America. In 1856, a slave (Cuba Gooding Jr) escapes a plantation near Richmond with his family through the Underground Railroad. Simultaneously, the story of a slave boat captain (Bernhard Forcher) on a ship bound for colonial America 100 years earlier is told, with the captain questioning the morality of his journey.
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Product Info
- UPC: 796019829403
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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