12 Years a Slave (Blu-ray) R
The extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 14 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 4, 2014
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: Searchlight
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano & Paul Giamatti | |
Performer: | Dwight Henry, Lupita Nyong'o, Alfre Woodard, Michael Fassbender, Bryan Batt, Quvenzhané Wallis, Scoot McNairy, Sarah Paulson, Garret Dillahunt & Brad Pitt | |
Directed by | Steve McQueen | |
Edited by | Joe Walker | |
Screenplay by | John Ridley | |
Composition by | Hans Zimmer | |
Produced by | Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan & William Pohlad | |
Director of Photography: | Sean Bobbitt |
Entertainment Reviews:
4 stars out of 4 -- Intense, unflinching, bold in its simplicity and radical in its use of image, sound and staging, 12 YEARS A SLAVE is in many ways is the defining epic so many have longed for to examine -- if not cauterize -- America’s primal wound.
Washington Post
[McQueen's] is a decidedly high style -- every image has been precisely calibrated, tailored to fit a consonant aesthetic.
Sight and Sound
Rating: A+ --
12 Years a Slave occupies that sparsely inhabited place beyond Oscar statues and Tomatometer scores, in the upper stratosphere of movies that act as time machine and history professor. It is, for want of a better word, important.
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The Reader (Omaha, NE)
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Overall, 12 Years a Slave is a brave piece of filmmaking and one to last through the ages in terms of acting and storytelling.
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Musings of Guitargalchina
Rating: 4/4 --
Too often have [slavery's] horrors been whitewashed in popular culture, but here at last McQueen lays them bare through the eyes and words of a man who experienced the unthinkable.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
Rating: 5/5 --
The definitive film on its subject matter.
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One Room With A View
Rating: B+ --
12 Years a Slave is for those who want to see Ejiofor's brilliance, believe that this history should be told so it will never be repeated -- and can bear to witness it interpreted for the screen.
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Product Description:
Steve McQueen's 12 YEARS A SLAVE stars Chiwetel Ejifor as Solomon Northup, a free black man in 1840s America. He makes his living as a fiddle player, and his wife is a teacher. He is shanghaied by a pair of nefarious white men, and soon finds himself on a ship headed to New Orleans where he is informed he will be called Platt and is sold into slavery by an unscrupulous businessman (Paul Giamatti). As he toils away for the kindhearted but conflicted plantation owner Mr. Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch), who recognizes that Platt is both educated and an artist, he butts head with Ford's underlings, especially the casually cruel Tibeats (Paul Dano). After they have a violent altercation, Ford fears for his slave's life and sells him to Mr. Epps (Michael Fassbender), an alcoholic sadist who owns a cotton plantation.
Though Epps reads from the bible to his property, as he frequently refers to his slaves, he is himself not immune to sins of the flesh. He has taken the young Patsey (Lupita Nyong'o) - his best cotton picker -- as his lover, and this doesn't sit well at all with his severe wife (Sarah Paulson), whose particular hatred for blacks and her jealousy fuels her many degrading actions toward Patsey. Solomon bides his time, attempts to preserve a modicum of self-respect, and waits for the chance to reclaim his rightful name as well as his family.
Though Epps reads from the bible to his property, as he frequently refers to his slaves, he is himself not immune to sins of the flesh. He has taken the young Patsey (Lupita Nyong'o) - his best cotton picker -- as his lover, and this doesn't sit well at all with his severe wife (Sarah Paulson), whose particular hatred for blacks and her jealousy fuels her many degrading actions toward Patsey. Solomon bides his time, attempts to preserve a modicum of self-respect, and waits for the chance to reclaim his rightful name as well as his family.
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