Amazing Grace

UK 2006, 117 minutes
Dir. Michael Apted
Genres: Drama / History

Topics: Period - 1700s, Indigenous & Minority Cultures.

Feat. Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell

Aroview: Stirring dramatisation of the true story of 18th-century abolitionist William Wilberforce and his revolt against Britain’s slave trade.

Made to commemorate the bicentennial celebrations of the Parliamentary bill outlawing the slave trade, the film looks at the extremely heated moral and ideological debates that occurred over the issue. Wilberforce is marvellously brought to life by Ioan Gruffudd, full of rhetoric, frustration and passion. While it is all arguably a little historically reductive, this is overall a handsomely mounted portrait of a renowned revolutionary.

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4 stars (Very Good) A terrific cast do justice to the excellent screenplay which in the main doesn't get sidetracked or get too melodramatic. The screenplay does well to represent both sides of the argument and the debates in the House are its strength. ~Tubbs