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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
John Murray
Bishop Wadley
Kate Mulgrew
Hattie Carraway
Louis Gossett Jr.
Fiddler
Lawrence Mandley
Boatman
Avery Brooks
Cletus Moyer
Fran Bennett
May
Michael Learned
Amelia Parker
LeVar Burton
Kunta Kinte
Tim Russ
Marcellus
Shaun Cassidy
Edmund Parker, Jr.
Jerry Hardin
William Reynolds
Jimmie F. Skaggs
Scarvie
Annabella Price
Sarah Parker
Tina Andrews
Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)
John McMartin
Edmund Parker, Sr.
Ernest Harden Jr.
Nick
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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