Amistad (1997)
It is the story of the slave ship Amistad, who sailed from Cuba to America on a long journey led by Cinque, but the slaves seem to have been in an unprecedented uprising. Subsequently, the slaves were held in Connecticut and their release becomes controversial and a matter that needs to be considered. On the other hand, there is a slave editor named Theodore Judson of Sync, where he tries to acquit others. Theodore recruited Roger Baldwin as a lawyer to help his case. In the end, John Quincy Adams also became an ally in the most exciting case.
24 July 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
18 June 1957, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
1 December 1961, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
18 October 1954, Independence, Missouri, USA
23 February 1948, New York, New York, USA
3 March 1933, Havana, Cuba
13 June 1951, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
December 06, 2005
Fortunately, the dry, courtroom banter is interjected with powerful accounts of the violent, inhumane atrocities inflicted on the slaves by Spanish merchants.April 09, 2005
Amistad is the telling of an interesting event in American history, but doesn't draw its audience in to the heart of the story.December 06, 2004
This is the most straightforward, understated, and powerful big-screen representation of the gospel in recent movie history. And for that, Amistad should be recommended to everyone.May 26, 2006
Amistad is worth seeing just for people to know about this important story, this moment in history. But from the world's most powerful, successful and famous director, we expect more.January 01, 2000
Thematically rich, impeccably crafted, and intellectually stimulating, the only area where this movie falls a little short is in its emotional impact.December 21, 2010
Powerful story for mid-teens and up.January 01, 2000
As Spielberg vehicles go, Amistad -- part mystery, action thriller, courtroom drama, even culture-clash comedy -- lands between the disturbing lyricism of Schindler's List and the storybook artificiality of The Color Purple.June 18, 2002
In Amistad, an admirable but disappointing effort...[Speilberg] veers between stoic political correctness and mushy Hollywood platitudes.February 13, 2006
Aiming to instruct and entertain, and often struggling to reconcile these goals, Amistad lacks the subtlety of tone and simplicity of form that made Schindler's List one of Spielberg's very best; here, however, every idea and image are too explicit.April 12, 2002
Spielberg seems to be dividing his filmmaking output into two distinct halves: in the summer months cranking out no-brainer dinosaur flicks...in the winter season unveiling his serious artistic stuff to edify the adults and woo the Oscar crowd.January 01, 2000
Halfway into Amistad comes the point where Steven Spielberg pulls the lever, and the stink and horror and bestialities of slavery spill around our ankles. We can't look away.June 24, 2006
In short, a wordy courtroom drama which seldom progresses beyond ciphers, stereotypes and salutary slogans.