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	Amistad (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny aboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America.
		One by Anthony Hopkins as former president John Quincy Adams (an unusual turn for him, where he really soars), and the other by Djimon Hounsou (later cast as Juba in Gladiator) as Cinque being the true gem.
		Ultimately, Amistad's greatest strength is that it avoids offering any easy answers and in that sense, does to subconscious issues about race and slavery what Kubrick's 2001 did to space travel and progress, albeit with more humanity and more accessible drama.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0118607 (605 words)

	DVD Review - Amistad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After a year of rumoring the director is waiting for 1 million players to be in homes, he now seems to be waiting for an installed player base of 2 million before he is willing to pull out the big guns.
		While watching "Amistad" one can’t help but think that Steven Spielberg tried to re-enact the success and importance of his previous film "Schindler’s List", a strong drama that despite its considerable length is one of the best films made in the past ten years.
		Especially during the dramatic scenes of the insurrection at the movie’s beginning, the surrounds are very active and bass extension is very good, giving the film the enough punch to drive the scenes home.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/amistad.shtml (1264 words)

	Amistad (1997)
		Based on a true story, the movie chronicles the incredible journey of a group of enslaved Africans who overtake their captor's ship and attempt to return to their beloved homeland.
		When the ship, La Amistad, is seized, these captives are brought to the United States where they are charged with murder and await their fate in prison.
		The tale behind Amistad is a valuable one, but the movie itself badly simplified and dumbed down the story to the point where it became a sugary and sentimental piece of tripe.
	www.dvdmg.com /amistad.shtml (2237 words)

	"Amistad" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		Amistad inspires the viewer to treasure freedom and to be grateful to our forefathers for the commitment they made when declaring that all men have the right to pursue happiness and to live life to its fullest, free from tyranny and oppression.
		Amistad is a movie of epic proportions; yet it is not for everyone to see.
		Suprisingly, the movie "Amistad" boldly suggests that the slaves' long journey to freedom was possibly in the hands of a higher power, whether that was Jesus Christ or Cinque's African ancestors.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/pre2000/i-amistad.html (2056 words)

	Morgan Freeman: Amistad - Movie
		This movie, like "Saving Private Ryan" and "Shindler's List" (which, if you want a real portrayal of the true story with all its ambiguity intact, you should read the book)comes from the mind of technically proficient film maker who is totally incapible of getting to the truth of any situation.
		Amistad is not a movie that makes you feel good, or makes you feel comfortable.
		As a drama, then, it seems from the divided opinions of the historically minded critics that Spielberg has struck at least a rough balance; that is, he doesn't seem to have gone to such an extreme in his personal interpretation and retelling of the events as to provoke a unanimous response from (self-proclaimed) period experts.
	www.superiorpics.com /morgan_freeman/movie/1997_amistad.html (1523 words)

	Review: Amistad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On the whole, while Amistad may not be faithful to all of the details of the situation, it is true to the spirit and meaning of what transpired.
		Amistad's presentation of the legal and political intricacies surrounding the trial are fascinating, making this movie one of the most engrossing courtroom dramas in recent history.
		Amistad's trek to the screen, which encountered some choppy waters (author Barbara Chase-Riboud has cried plagiarism, a charge denied by the film makers), comes in the midst of an upsurge of interest in the incident.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/a/amistad.html (1144 words)

	News From Alabama Live
		His male-dominated movies return endlessly to tales of childish men and absent fathers; his happy endings are invariably provided by sons who finally grow up -- or daddies who magically return.
		Although the filmmakers may protest that "Amistad" is based on fact, an old-fashioned paternalism still lurks in the approach.
		"Amistad" does that so well it's nearly impossible to respond on anything but an emotional level as Cinque steers his ship by the stars, or the masts of schooners rise up like crosses waiting for the crucified.
	www.al.com /movies/reviews/amistad.html (736 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| "Amistad"
		The movie is Spielberg's attempt to do for slavery what he did for the Holocaust in "Schindler's List" (I don't mean that cynically), and it makes every mistake that his earlier movie avoided.
		The movie is sloppy about clarifying that the mutineers were not on trial for murder (slaves were "beasts of burden" and therefore not subject to the laws governing men), and equally sloppy about sorting out all the parties pressing for a piece of them.
		Few escape that fate in "Amistad." Playing a freed slave who's become an abolitionist (a composite of several real-life figures), Morgan Freeman has a few good moments (for example, his terror while gathering evidence from the hold of the Amistad) in an utterly cryptic role.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/1997/12/12amistad.html (1426 words)

	CNN - Review: 'Amistad' a powerful but sinking ship - December 12, 1997
		I don't agree with the theory, but there are people out there who feel that the true test of a director is whether or not you can follow what's going on in his or her films with the sound turned off.
		"Amistad" is the true story of an uprising on a slave ship in 1841, a heroic event that needs to be told.
		The opening uprising in "Amistad" is a ghastly, bloody thing to watch, but it's nothing compared to the horrors displayed in the galley of the slave ship.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9712/12/review.amistad (1110 words)

	'Amistad'
		As the movie unflinchingly illustrates, the slave ship La Amistad's captives endured heinous treatment as they journeyed from Africa to the Caribbean.
		Cinque (Djimon Hounsou) was among the exceptions, and "Amistad" is an account of his quest for freedom and its repercussions, which are with us to this day.
		As he searches the Amistad's dank hold for evidence, he's staggered by the chains and bloodstains, but most of all by the ghosts from his past.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/amistadkempley.htm (718 words)

	The Louisville Scene - Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		"Amistad" is weighted down by inexcusable gaffes, in-adequate development of its fl characters and dialogue that's too often about as exciting as a required history course.
		While "Amistad" makes the indisputable case that slavery is immoral and dehumanizing, Steven Spielberg's first serious movie since "Schindler's List" never soars with the powerful emotions this overlooked story could evoke.
		The director based the movie on historical accounts of the "Amistad" revolt, but he tells the story from a point of view that diminishes the Africans' specific experiences.
	www.courier-journal.com /scene/movies/movierev/19971219amistad.htm (657 words)

	Pop-Culture-Corn: Movies: Amistad
		"Amistad" is crammed full of obvious "Oscar shots" engineered to elicit emotions from audiences and tiny gasps from award nominating bodies across the nation.
		From the fake tension of the opening sequence chronicling the mutiny aboard the slave ship to the visual motifs that are hammered into a viewer's eyeballs time and again, "Amistad" approaches its story and subject with all the subtlety of a jackhammer in a church.
		If "Amistad" is worth seeing at all, it's because of the performances of tremendous actors like Hounsou and Hopkins, not because of the blatant Oscar grandstanding of a director who has distorted the subtlety in his work beyond recognition.
	www.popculturecorn.com /movies/issues/dec97/review-amistad.html (661 words)

	MJ Movie Reviews - Amistad (1997) by Dan DeVore
		Amistad is a movie that revisits history and tells a story that is seen through biased eyes and told in half truths with overbearing sentimentalism.
		Amistad soon turns into a courtroom drama with a few minor differences thrown in, mostly for pacing and storytelling purposes.
		Amistad portrays the ship’s crew in the courtroom scenes as a bunch of zealot-like Captain Ahabs fused with the David Dukes of the world.
	www.moviejustice.com /vault/index.php?p=getitem&db_id=4&item_id=164 (1474 words)

	The cast, information, and selected reviews of Stephen Spielberg's Amistad, with links to extensive set of historical ...
		The diffuse "Amistad" divides its energies among many concerns: the pain and strangeness of the captives' experience, the Presidential election in which they become a factor, the stirrings of civil war, and the great many bewhiskered abolitionists and legal representatives who argue about their fate.
		And the best parts of "Amistad" are those that simply bring their pride, fear and outrage to life.
		What Amistad lacks is a strong emotional current to flow gracefully with its rush of historical detail.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/amistad/AMI_MOVI.HTM (1061 words)

	MOVIE REVIEW: Amistad
		Based on the historical account of the mutiny on board the slave ship La Amistad, this gritty, brutal film is not just a retelling of the horrors of slavery and the inhumanity of the slave trade.
		The movie suffers a rough, choppy beginning that seems as if there were too many hands in the editing pot, but pulls out of this problem about 45 minutes into the film.
		Amistad is more than just a movie designed to foster "white guilt" (as many detractors have claimed).
	www.europa.com /~jefflee/MOVIE/amistad.shtml (481 words)

	Soul Food Movies: AMISTAD
		Where the film follows on from the director's deeply affecting holocaust film is in its portrayal of "America's holocaust" (well, one of them), though this film restricts its field of vision to a single group of slaves in a succession of slave ships and prisons.
		AMISTAD does not chart the whole history of slavery in America, but the images it does give us are unshakeable, particularly aboard the notorious "Tecora," which transported its human cargo from Africa to Cuba.
		And that's the cloth that AMISTAD is cut from, as we come to see great strength and dignity in characters who begin the story in chains, barely considered human, and witness the same kind of transformation in those who take up their cause; a former slave, a crassly opportunistic lawyer, and a doddering ex-president.
	soulfoodmovies.blogspot.com /2007/03/amistad.html (2195 words)

	Amistad review
		Amistad begins with the event that made that ship's history different from other slave ships: the gradual extraction of a nail from the ship which allowed Cinque (also known as Sengbe) to free first himself and then the other slaves on board.
		Since movie posters were also enclosed, it would be easier to term these materials promotional literature, which had been mailed by Lifetime Learning Systems Inc., but they were all copyrighted by DreamWorks SKG, the company Spielberg both owns (with Katz and Geffen) and worked for as director in making Amistad.
		Given that Amistad is one of the three initial films to be released by DreamWorks (along with the less-than-thrilling Peacemaker and the new film Mouse Hunt), company marketers realized that they needed success with Amistad or the company's first year would have to be considered a bust.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/filmnotes/amistad-review.html (2816 words)

	Movies: Amistad - Margaret McGurk: The Cincinnati Enquirer
		Movies: Amistad - Margaret McGurk: The Cincinnati Enquirer
		Their subsequent capture and trials form the larger part of the movie, which is very much a courtroom drama.
		More important, the movie is a document of the human beings caught up in the battle -- chiefly Roger Baldin (Matthew McConaughey) the ambitious young lawyer for the Africans, and Cinque (Djimon Hounsou), leader of the rebels.
	www.cincinnati.com /freetime/movies/mcgurk/amistad.html (459 words)

	'Amistad'
		In "Amistad," Spielberg makes an involving, three-ring spectacle out of slavery, as 53 African captives find themselves in a highly politicized tug of war among slave traders, sailors, abolitionists, secessionists, the New Haven, Conn., court, 11-year-old Queen Isabella II of Spain, bumbling president Martin Van Buren and former president John Quincy Adams.
		But their attempts to steer the Amistad home to Africa take them in the wrong direction.
		Although the movie is moving and even funny in many places, it's also overextended.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/amistadhowe.htm (551 words)

	The History Place - Amistad: Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Amistad, the new film by Steven Spielberg, is a masterpiece of film making providing a thoroughly rewarding entertainment and learning experience.
		The film is a fictional portrayal of events surrounding the successful revolt in 1839 by a group of Africans headed for slavery in the Americas.
		The crew members trick the Africans into believing they are sailing home, all the while going no further than the eastern seaboard of the U.S. After two months of sailing a haphazard course, and desperately low on food and water, they are captured by a U.S. Navy ship near Connecticut.
	www.historyplace.com /specials/reviews/amistad.htm (511 words)

	Amistad \| Movie Review \| Entertainment Weekly
		Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW Steven Spielberg's Amistad (DreamWorks) opens on an image of literal darkness: a man's eye, viewed in sweaty chiaroscuro close-up, his fl skin glistening in a room even fler than he is, the man working feverishly to wedge a nail out of a wooden floor.
		The first hour of Amistad is devoted to the laborious spectacle of McConaughey's Baldwin trying to devise a way to communicate with Cinque and to learn where, exactly, he comes from.
		Amistad is two and a half hours of fl men sitting around in chains waiting to be given their freedom.
	www.ew.com /ew/article/0,,290714,00.html (934 words)

	Crain's Chicago Business - City to host Amistad schooner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Beginning Sunday visitors will be able to walk through the two-deck vessel and hear the historical account of the Amistad incident, in which a group of Africans revolted against their Spanish captors while sailing off the cost of Cuba.
		AMISTAD America Inc., a Connecticut-based nonprofit, owns the ship and took it on tour of East Coast cities over the last few years.
		Admission to the Navy Pier Amistad exhibit is free from 9 a.m.
	www.aetna.com /foundation/news/articles/2003/pr_20030724.htm (419 words)

	Amistad - Rotten Tomatoes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Based on actual events in 1838, AMISTAD is the story of captured African slaves who took over their transport ship in a bloody revolt with the hopes of returning back to their homeland.
		Although not the grandiose epic it strives to be, Amistad is still a good film, with solid, but not superb, acting, and competent, but not transcendent, direction.
		Amistad is the kind of movie that makes a tired topic seem fresh and entertaining again.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/amistad (861 words)

	Rob Waring: Amistad (Van Buren's Folly)
		Yes, it’s true that Amistad is another movie about some fl people in peril who are helped out by some nice white guys, and told largely from the perspective of these white guys.
		The crew of the United States warship that recaptured La Amistad claims a one-third salvage interest in the vessel, under a maritime law incentive scheme that rewards enterprising seamen, even those in government employ, for retrieving lost property.
		The movie begins to look like Roots meets Citizen Ruth, as these competing parties dogmatically pursue their causes, mostly oblivious to the welfare of the Africans whose lives and liberty are at stake.
	www.usfca.edu /pj/articles/Amistad.htm (1807 words)

	Amazon.com: Amistad: DVD: Morgan Freeman,Nigel Hawthorne,Anthony Hopkins,Djimon Hounsou,Matthew McConaughey,David ...
		Spielberg skillfully balances a movie that is a courtroom drama mixed with an indictment against the slave system of America's past.
		Amistad is a true story about an 1839 mutiny aboard a slave ship that is traveling towards North America.
		This movie is a powerful look into the slave days of America and those who fought to abolish it.
	www.amazon.com /Amistad-Morgan-Freeman/dp/0783231202 (1942 words)

	Amistad Movie Review
		Regardless of the outcome of this real world courtroom drama, "Amistad" is a compelling, and most likely Oscar-bound, historical courtroom drama that sheds light on an overlooked period in American history between the Declaration of Independence and the American Civil War.
		The two survivors of the Amistad crew demand that their 'property' be returned to them, and argue that they have not broken any anti-slavery laws with their contention that the slaves are second-generation slaves from Cuba.
		The prepubescent Queen Isabella II (Ann Paquin), who is eleven and still playing with dolls at the time of the incident, is demanding the return of the slaves to Spain, as per a treaty between Spain and the United States.
	users.aol.com /aleong1631/amistad.html (904 words)

	The BigScreen Cinema Guide: Reader Reviews - Amistad
		This is not a feel good movie, nor does it make you feel like you want to go out there and change the world; what it does do, is make you sit back and reflect upon an incident in our nation's history that will disappoint you.
		The story line centers around the capture, detainment, transportation and murder of men, women and children who are being brought to the United States to be slaves in 1839.
		"Amistad" is a film based on the slave revolt that led to freedom for many slaves who took part in the revolt.
	www.bigscreen.com /ReaderReview.php?movie=Amistad (642 words)

	Mystic Seaport Exhibit: Voyage to Freedom
		A seven minute video depicting the Amistad incident orients visitors as they enter “Voyage to Freedom.” The exhibit then journeys to the Amistad Africans’ homeland of Mendi, which encompasses present-day Sierra Leone, and examines their capture, horrific middle passage and revolt aboard the schooner Amistad.
		The freedom schooner Amistad is scheduled to set sail in 2000 and is made possible by a State of Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development bond and by the project’s lead corporate sponsor, Phoenix Home Life Mutual Insurance Company based in Hartford, Connecticut.
		The project is the vision of Amistad America, Inc., a not-for-profit organization responsible for the fundraising and long-term care of the vessel.
	amistad.mysticseaport.org /forum/links/voyage.to.freedom.html (583 words)

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