Amistad

La Amistad is a slave ship transporting captured Africans from Spanish Cuba to the United States in 1839. Joseph Cinqué, a leader of the Africans, leads a mutiny and takes over the ship. The mutineers spare the lives of two Spanish navigators to help them sail the ship back to Africa. Instead, the navigators misdirect the Africans and sail directly north to the east coast of the United States, where the ship is stopped by the American Navy, and the surviving Africans imprisoned as runaway slaves.

MPAA Rating:R
Genre:Drama, History, Biography
Country:United States
Produced By:Bob Cooper, Walter F. Parkes, Colin Wilson, Laurie Macdonald, Debbie Allen, Paul Deason, Tim Shriver, Steven Spielberg, Bonnie Curtis
Directed By:Steven Spielberg
Written By:David Franzoni
Cast:Susan Bergeron, Allan Rich, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Pete Postlethwaite, Matthew McConaughey, Paul Guilfoyle, Stellan Skarsgård, Austin Pendleton, Jeremy Northam, Ingrid Walters, Razaaq Adoti, Michael Riley, Harry A. Blackmun, Castulo Guerra, Ralph Brown, Morgan Freeman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Harrison Young, Roosevelt Flenoury, Roy Cooper, Geno Silva, John H. Tobin, John Ortiz, Nigel Hawthorne, John D. Bair, Adekunle Ilori, Morgan Hobart, Robert Walsh, Kevin M. Simon, Ibrahim Sesay, Willie Amakye, León Singer, Anthony Hopkins, Tommy Lynch, Ungenita Prevost, Alex Daunis, Luis Muñoz, Anna Paquin, Tomas Milian, Rusty Schwimmer, Lawrence Gaughan, David Paymer, Gerald R. Molen, Harry Groener, Jeremy Shelton, Lisa Cavanaugh, Jake Weber, Craig Calman, Daniel Von Bargen, Victor Rivers, Darren E. Burrows, George Gerdes, Arliss Howard, Denver Dowridge, Sean McGuirk, Hawthorne James, Eric Bruno Borgman, KimStacy Carter, Djimon Hounsou, William Young, Peter Firth, Michael Massee, Saye Lah, Frank T. Wells, Johnny Egan, Tony Owen, Glendon Rich, Abu Bakaar Fofanah, Carlos Spivey, Luis Cabrera, Xander Berkeley, Derrick N. Ashong, Kevin J. O'Connor
In Theaters:Dec 25, 1997
Runtime:2 hours 35 minutes
Production:Dreamworks Pictures, Home Box Office (HBO)
Budget:$36,000,000
Box Office:$44,229,441
Available On:Amazon, Itunes, Vudu
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