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Emancipation (2022)

R 132 minutes EN Drama , War , History

Inspired by the gripping true story of a man who would do anything for his family—and for freedom. When Peter, an enslaved man, risks his life to escape and return to his family, he embarks on a perilous journey of love and endurance.

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Will Smith

Peter

Ben Foster

Jim Fassel

Charmaine Bingwa

Dodienne

Gilbert Owuor

Gordon

Ronnie Gene Blevins

Harrington

Aaron Moten

Knowls

Jabbar Lewis

Tomas

Michael Luwoye

John

Steven Ogg

Howard

Grant Harvey

Leeds

Mustafa Shakir

Lt. Andrew Cailloux

Paul Ben-Victor

Major G. Halstead

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Robert Richardson

Director of Photography

Marcelo Zarvos

Original Music Composer

Cynthia La Jeunesse

Set Decoration

Naomi Shohan

Production Design

Francine Jamison-Tanchuck

Costume Design

Anne Costa

Art Direction

Tom Frohling

Supervising Art Director

Shamim Seifzadeh

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"Emancipation struggles tremendously to justify its existence. The overly performative, superficial screenplay fails to elevate and distinguish the unique, true story of "Whipped Peter" from all the other generic movies that treat slavery as a mere plot point to "yet another" action/survival flick - surely there's a better way to adapt these stories?!
Cinematography (Robert Richardson), cast - mainly Will Smith - and some of Antoine Fuqua's direction do a lot of the heavy lifting, but it starts to get tiring and painful to continue to watch shameful, traumatic events of our history being used repeatedly for pure Hollywood entertainment."
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Official website: https://tv.apple.com/movie/umc.cmc.1j6fdxookwtqml3bd8ivvcbbv

Production companies: Westbrook, McFarland Entertainment, Escape Artists, Apple Studios

Production countries: United States of America

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R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian 21 or older. The parent/guardian is required to stay with the child under 17 through the entire movie, even if the parent gives the child/teenager permission to see the film alone. These films may contain strong profanity, graphic sexuality, nudity, strong violence, horror, gore, and strong drug use. A movie rated R for profanity often has more severe or frequent language than the PG-13 rating would permit. An R-rated movie may have more blood, gore, drug use, nudity, or graphic sexuality than a PG-13 movie would admit.)

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