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Amazing Grace
Directed by
Michael Apted
PG
2006
1h 57m
Drama
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Biography
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7.4
68%
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The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.
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Cast of Amazing Grace
Ioan Gruffudd
William Wilberforce
Romola Garai
Barbara Spooner
Benedict Cumberbatch
William Pitt
Albert Finney
John Newton
Michael Gambon
Lord Charles Fox
Rufus Sewell
Thomas Clarkson
Youssou N'Dour
Olaudah Equiano
Ciarán Hinds
Lord Tarleton
Toby Jones
Duke of Clarence
Nicholas Farrell
Henry Thornton
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Marianne Thornton
Jeremy Swift
Richard the Butler
Stephen Campbell Moore
James Stephen
Bill Paterson
Lord Dundas
Nicholas Day
Sir William Dolben
Georgie Glen
Hannah More
Nicholas Woodeson
Harrison
Tom Browne
John Ramsay
Richard Ridings
Speaker of the House
David Hunt
Lord Camden
David Toole
Beggar
Alex Blake
Heckler
Angie Wallis
Marjorie
Harry Audley
Edward Hope (Quaker)
Chris Barnes
Michael Shaw (Quaker)
Tom Knight
Physician
Andrew Whipp
MP 1
Andrew Neil
MP 2
Estelle Morgan
Maid
Philip Dunbar
Camber
Adam Woodroffe
Parliamentary Clerk
Joseph Traynor
Newton's Secretary
Simon Delaney
Young Parliamentary Officer
Neville Phillips
Old Parliamentary Official
Eki Maria
Young African Woman
Daniel Naprous
Delivery Coach Driver
Peter White
Delivery Assistant
Amazing Grace Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A good -- and important -- story, not always well told.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
Apted's unexpected crowd-pleaser is inspirational, but also surprisingly entertaining.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Amazing Grace, a prettified take on the life and times of the 18th-century reformer William Wilberforce, carries a strong whiff of piety. It isn't a bad smell; there are notes of roses and treacle in the mix, but also elements of sweat and pain.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
Director Michael Apted tells the story with dry devotion to parliamentary procedurals and a worshipful approach to Wilberforce. But [actor] Gruffudd lacks the intensity and charisma to pull it off.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A detailed, affecting biography of one of the great souls who moved humanity forward.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Michael Apted's compelling and highly informative Amazing Grace is an apt celebration of America's Black History Month, even though its story takes place in England.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Amazing Grace isn't quite an accurate title for this entertaining history lesson, but no one will ever write a song titled 'Amazing 20-Year Period of Parliamentary Maneuvering to End Britain's Role in the Slave Trade.'
Denver Post
Michael Booth
I'm sure [director] Apted meant well, but Amazing Grace comes across as a surprisingly graceless biopic narrowed down to one white man's uncomfortable burden.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Amazing Grace is the stuff of great lessons and inspiration and hope, and if it's all delivered with a bit too much moral push, well, moral push apparently was what William Wilberforce was all about. There's another word for such dweebs: Heroes.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Director Michael Apted has turned out a movie that might be best described as faithful, both in its attention to accuracy and in its acknowledgement of the role faith played in righting one of the great social wrongs.
The New Yorker
David Denby
As square as this movie is, it has been made with eloquence and jaunty high spirits, and it tells a good story that is virtually unknown here.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Director Michael Apted and his team understand the challenges of this kind of story and have met them with intelligence and energy. [He] has managed to be true to the outsized emotions of the story without giving way to sentimentality.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Screenwriter Steven Knight gracefully articulates the many domestic and international forces at work.
San Jose Mercury News
Bruce Newman
Like Steven Spielberg's glossy Amistad before it, Amazing Grace shies away from the texture and complexity of color, scurrying instead for the safer platitudes of black and white -- good and evil.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
It's a doughty movie, stuck halfway between Masterpiece Theatre and Classics Illustrated.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Amazing Grace is a case of good works done well...[an] admirable historical drama.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
[Apted's] picture, openhearted and enthusiastic, is partly an ode to Wilberforce and partly a love letter to the simple act of taking action.
Chicago Sun-Times
Teresa Budasi
The film is inspiring. When Wilberforce finally achieves victory, Lord Fox makes a speech, in which the opening words, sadly, still ring true today: 'When people think of great men, rarely do they think of peaceful men.'
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
[Director Michael Apted] has an unfortunate penchant for bland stateliness, and never more so than in Amazing Grace.
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