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Roots: The Gift
1988, Dec 11
1h 33m
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.
Directed by
Kevin Hooks
Written by
David Eyre
Kate Mulgrew
Hattie Carraway
Louis Gossett Jr.
Fiddler
LeVar Burton
Kunta Kinte
Michael Learned
Amelia
John McMartin
Edmund Parker, Sr.
Shaun Cassidy
Edmund Parker, Jr.
Tim Russ
Marcellus
Jerry Hardin
Reynolds
Fran Bennett
May
Annabella Price
Sarah
Avery Brooks
Cletus Moyer
Tina Andrews
Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Goldman
Horseman (uncredited)
Ernest Harden Jr.
Nick
Brandy Brown
Arabella
Maria Bryant
Lilly
Michael Edwards
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