Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 155 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
- mutiny
- cuba
- sentence
- slavery
- historical figure
- tall ship
- slave trade
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Morgan Freeman
Theodore Joadson
Nigel Hawthorne
Martin Van Buren
Anthony Hopkins
John Quincy Adams
Djimon Hounsou
Cinque
- Matthew McConaughey — Roger Sherman Baldwin
- David Paymer — Secretary John Forsyth
- Pete Postlethwaite — Holabird
- Stellan Skarsgård — Tappan
- Razaaq Adoti — Yamba
- Abu Bakaar Fofanah — Fala
- Anna Paquin — Queen Isabella
- Tomas Milian — Calderon
- Chiwetel Ejiofor — Ensign Covey
- Derrick N. Ashong — Buakei
- Geno Silva — Ruiz
- Directed
- Steven Spielberg
- Written
- David Franzoni
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 1,444 ratings
- Studio
- DreamWorks Pictures, HBO Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
