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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
Tim Russ
Marcellus
John Murray
Bishop Wadley
Louis Gossett Jr.
Fiddler
Kate Mulgrew
Hattie Carraway
Avery Brooks
Cletus Moyer
LeVar Burton
Kunta Kinte
Michael Learned
Amelia Parker
Shaun Cassidy
Edmund Parker, Jr.
John McMartin
Edmund Parker, Sr.
Fran Bennett
May
Annabella Price
Sarah Parker
Jerry Hardin
William Reynolds
Ernest Harden Jr.
Nick
Jimmie F. Skaggs
Scarvie
Tina Andrews
Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lawrence Mandley
Boatman
Robert Goldman
Horseman (uncredited)
Brandy Brown
Arabella
Maria Bryant
Lilly
James McIntire
Jubal
Karl Anthony Smith
Gaunt Man
J. Christopher Sullivan
Driver #2
Donna Howell
Elly
Billy Ray Reynolds
Christopher
Michael Edwards
Gentleman #1
Myke R. Mueller
Gentleman #2
Bernard Peyton
Jolly
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