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Amistad
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  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 35 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 4, 1999
  • Originally Released: 1997
  • Label: Dreamworks Video

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User Ratings: 51,113
'Amistad' may not be the first, or fifth, or tenth film people talk about when Spielberg's name comes up. But it has more moments that will put your hair on end than other filmmakers' best works, and that says something. Full Review
Vice
Dec 14, 2017
Rating: 3/5 -- Amistad is worth seeing for the stormy scenes on board the slave boat, and for Djimon Hounsou's magnetic performance. Otherwise, it can't decide on its direction, and this unique historical event is stifled into a less than thrilling courtroom drama. Full Review
Total Film
May 31, 2018
Rating: 4/5 -- Powerful story for mid-teens and up. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Dec 22, 2010
Rating: 2/4 -- In Amistad, an admirable but disappointing effort...[Speilberg] veers between stoic political correctness and mushy Hollywood platitudes. Full Review
San Francisco Chronicle
Jun 18, 2002
In short, a wordy courtroom drama which seldom progresses beyond ciphers, stereotypes and salutary slogans. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
Amistad is certainly a film of considerable power. Full Review
The New York Review of Books
Aug 17, 2018
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Spielberg seems to be dividing his filmmaking output into two distinct halves: in the summer months cranking out no-brainer dinosaur flicks...in the winter season unveiling his serious artistic stuff to edify the adults and woo the Oscar crowd. Full Review
Globe and Mail
Apr 12, 2002

Product Description:

Based on actual events in 1838, AMISTAD is the story of captured African slaves who took over their transport ship in a bloody revolt with the hopes of returning back to their homeland. After the slaves are caught and imprisoned, their leader, Cinque (Djimon Hounsou), unable to understand the language or court system of America, tries to communicate his desire to return home to his defense lawyer, Roger Baldwin (Matthew McConaughey), and former slave Theodore Joadson (Morgan Freeman). The men plead for help with their groundbreaking court case from former president John Quincy Adams (Anthony Hopkins). Steven Spielberg directed this moving film, using as a reference the book by William A. Owens, BLACK MUTINY: THE REVOLT ON THE SCHOONER AMISTAD. The Africans in the movie speak Mende, with subtitles added. West African actor Djimon Hounsou had to learn to speak the language for his role--and was nominated for a Golden Globe. Spielberg shot the film at the State House in Providence, Rhode Island, the seaport in Mystic, Connecticut, and other New England locations.

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  • UPC: 667068416220
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