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Roots: The Gift is a american film of genre Drama directed by Kevin Hooks released in USA on 11 december 1988 with LeVar Burton

Roots: The Gift (1988)

Roots: The Gift
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Released in USA 11 december 1988
Length 1h40
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Historical
Rating66% 3.345163.345163.345163.345163.34516

Roots: The Gift is a 1988 television film. It is the third installment of the Roots series, which traces the maternal family history of African American author Alex Haley, starting with his fourth great-grandfather Kunta Kinte. The film premiered on ABC on 11 December 1988, with AT&T as the sole national sponsor for the broadcast. LeVar Burton and Louis Gossett Jr. reprise their respective roles of Kunta Kinte and Fiddler. The film takes place between the second and third episodes of the original Roots miniseries.

The film was crafted as a Christmas movie. As one of the characters explains, the gift mentioned in the title is freedom.

Roots: The Gift is notable for featuring four actors who portrayed major characters in Star Trek television shows: LeVar Burton (Geordi La Forge from Star Trek: The Next Generation), Avery Brooks (Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), Kate Mulgrew (Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager), and Tim Russ (Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager).

Synopsis

In December 1775, Cletus Moyer (Brooks) is a free black Northerner in colonial America, working with a pre-Underground Railroad network to help slaves escape captivity. In the days just prior to Christmas, a group of bounty hunters led by Hattie Carraway (Mulgrew) captures Moyer near the Parker plantation in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Because of his capture, dozens of slaves who have already left their plantations in escape attempts are in danger of being captured as well. Moyer implores two slaves from the nearby Reynolds plantation to take his place: Kunta Kinte (Burton), a Mandinka in his mid-twenties who was captured in what is now the Gambia, and Fiddler (Gossett), an elderly man who was born into slavery. Kunta is eager to help (and to escape himself), but Fiddler is unwilling, fearful of the consequences if they are caught.

Actors

LeVar Burton

(Kunta Kinte)Louis Gossett Jr.

(Fiddler)Jerry Hardin

(Reynolds)Kate Mulgrew

(Hattie Carraway)Shaun Cassidy

(Edmund Parker, Jr.)
And :
Avery Brooks
Michael Learned
John McMartin
Fran Bennett
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