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Roots: The Gift (1988)

ALL 12/11/1988 (en) Drama, History, TV Movie 93 Min
  • Release
    12/11/1988
  • Production
    David L. Wolper Productions, Warner Bros. Television
  • Rotten tomato
    68%
  • Original title
    Roots: The Gift
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  1. Kevin Hooks

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Mark Wolper

    Producer



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Casts

  1. LeVar Burton

    Kunta Kinte

  2. Louis Gossett Jr.

    Fiddler

  3. Avery Brooks

    Cletus Moyer

  4. Kate Mulgrew

    Hattie Carraway

  5. Shaun Cassidy

    Edmund Parker, Jr.

  6. John McMartin

    Edmund Parker, Sr.

  7. Jerry Hardin

    William Reynolds

  8. Annabella Price

    Sarah Parker

  9. Michael Learned

    Amelia Parker

  10. Fran Bennett

    May

  11. Tim Russ

    Marcellus

  12. Jimmie F. Skaggs

    Scarvie

  13. Brandy Brown

    Arabella

  14. Ernest Harden Jr.

    Nick

  15. Maria Bryant

    Lilly

  16. James McIntire

    Jubal

  17. Lawrence Mandley

    Boatman

  18. John Sherrod

    Driver #1

  19. Karl Anthony Smith

    Gaunt Man

  20. J. Christopher Sullivan

    Driver #2

  21. Donna Howell

    Elly

  22. Billy Ray Reynolds

    Christopher

  23. Michael Edwards

    Gentleman #1

  24. Myke R. Mueller

    Gentleman #2

  25. John Murray

    Bishop Wadley

  26. Alex Haley

    Self - presenter

  27. Bernard Peyton

    Jolly

  28. Tina Andrews

    Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)

  29. Robert Goldman

    Horseman (uncredited)

  30. Debra Perry

    Slave Girl (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 30 , Crews : 9

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Roots: The Gift (1988) 93 Min

ALL 12/11/1988 (en)
Drama, History, TV Movie
  • Release 12/11/1988
  • Production
    David L. Wolper Productions, Warner Bros. Television
  • Original title Roots: The Gift
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Kevin Hooks

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Stanford C. Allen

    Editor

  4. Mark Wolper

    Producer



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