Film
Roots: The Gift
1988 · 1h 33m · Drama · History · TV Movie
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Overview
On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.
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Cast
LeVar Burton
Kunta Kinte
Louis Gossett Jr.
Fiddler
Avery Brooks
Cletus Moyer
Kate Mulgrew
Hattie Carraway
Shaun Cassidy
Edmund Parker, Jr.
John McMartin
Edmund Parker, Sr.
Jerry Hardin
William Reynolds
Annabella Price
Sarah Parker
Michael Learned
Amelia Parker
Fran Bennett
May
Tim Russ
Marcellus
Jimmie F. Skaggs
Scarvie
Brandy Brown
Arabella
Ernest Harden Jr.
Nick
Maria Bryant
Lilly
James McIntire
Jubal
Crew
- Kevin HooksDirector
- David EyreWriter
- Mark WolperProducer
- Bernard SofronskiExecutive Producer
- David L. WolperExecutive Producer
- John A. AlonzoDirector of Photography
- Gerald FriedOriginal Music Composer
- Stanford C. AllenEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- December 11, 1988
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rated
- PG
- Genres
- Drama, History, TV Movie
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