Release Date
October 16, 1998
Director
Jonathan Demme
Writer
Akosua Busia, Toni Morrison
Cast
Yada Beener, Jane White, Dorothy Love Coates, Anthony Chisholm, Jude Ciccolella, Kessia Randall, Carol Jean Lewis, Irma P. Hall, Albert Hall, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Beah Richards, Kimberly Elise, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey
Studio
Running Time
172 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for violent images, sexuality and nudity
Oprah Winfrey stars as Sethe, a woman of elemental grace and unspoken mystery. A figure of fierce determination, Sethe is a runaway slave struggling to carve out her own simple existence with her children in rural Ohio, 1873. Preventing her from achieving that, however, is the painful legacy of her former life, and the desperate measures to which she is driven to keep herself and her family from returning to it.
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