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Amazing Grace 109 minutes, USA (2006), PG
(3.0)
Rating: 3.0 Stars
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Amazing Grace

Michael Apted directs this heartfelt drama about the 30-year struggle of evangelical firebrand William Wilberforce to get Parliament to ban the slave trade. Ioan Gruffudd and Romola Garai star

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Amazing Grace: Amazing Grace begins badly. A beautiful black horse is being beaten senseless in the rain at the side of a country road. A passing carriage stops. A gentleman staggers out. Surely, you think, this film about the fight to abolish slavery is not going to be so crass as to begin with a black horse being cruelly thrashed by one white man and then saved by another?

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