Roots: The Gift (1988)
Directed by Kevin Hooks
Genres - Drama, Culture & Society |
Release Date - Dec 11, 1988 (USA - Unknown), Dec 11, 1988 (USA) |
Run Time - 100 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Deviating from the storyline of Alex Haley's book, and the classic 1977 miniseries that followed, the plotline of 1988's Roots: The Gift finds African-born slave Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) and his plantation friend Fiddler (Louis Gossett Jr.) helping freed black man Cletus Moyer (Avery Brooks) smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Roots: The Gift was set during Christmas of 1775 because it was slated for telecast during the Christmas season of 1988 -- December 11, to be exact. This telecast was timed to coincide with the posthumous publication of Alex Haley's book A Different Kind of Christmas, which had nothing whatsoever to do with Roots but did concern itself with runaway slaves at Yuletide.
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Black [race], captive, captor, Christmas, cross-cultural-relations, escape, family, freedom, heritage, history, holiday, roots [origins], slavery, underground-railroad
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