Title: Melodramatic courtroom drama disguised as slave history
Product review: This movie could be really good if it focused on the Middle Passage. The brief segement on the slave ship was by far the best sequence in the film. But the rest of the movie is dull, sappy, and overblown.Also, its not very historically accurate. This is not a problem dramatically ("Nixon" for example:great drama, horrible history), but its a personal pet peeve of mine. Also, as a history teacher, I find it disturbing that teachers were encouraged to use the film for educational purposes when it was released.
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