AMAZING GRACE

Moving away from the genteel realm of the British drawing room drama and into the more raucus setting of Parliament, Amazing Grace brings to the screen the truly amazing and untold tale of the decades long struggle to bring an end to the slave trade, now on the 200th anniversary of that proclamation being celebrated in the UK this month.

Director Michael Apted (Gorillas In The Mist, Coal Miner's Daughter) has an unquestionable gift for illuminating how key transformative historical moments play out in the business of everyday life. In this case, the stubborn persistence over years of
Parliamentarian William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) to bring down the slave trade. And Albert Finney is simply astonishing as the former slave ship captain John Newton who penned Amazing Grace, a hymn that inspired Wilberforce in his mission, and pretty much
the rest of humanity since then.

Prairie Miller