HARRIET: Herstory Finally Brought To The Big Screen

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Harriet: A Film Review
by Yevette Renee

Genre:                  Drama
Director:              Kasi Lemmons
Screenplay:        Kasi Lemmons, Gregory Allen Howard
Producer:            Debra Martin Chase, Daniela Taplin Lundberg , Gregory Allen Howard
Story :                   Gregory Allen Howard
Starring:               Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, Janelle Monáe

HARRIET: Herstory Finally Brought To The Big Screen

Director Kasi Lemmons brings her Herstoryy to the big screen with her new film, Harriet. Co-written with Gregory Allen Howard, brings to life the harsh struggles of Harriet Tubman and despite being born into slavery and eventually escaping, she went on to assist in the freedom of hundreds of slave along the Underground Railroad.

Staring Tony-award winning actress Cynthia Erivo as Tubman, who despite the controversy of the non-casting of an American born black actress, gave a compelling performance as Harriet. William Still, a writer and abolitionist who connects Tubman with the Underground Railroad  (Leslie Odom Jr.) Gideon Brodess, Harriet's slave owner (Joe Alwyn) as Marie Buchanon, a proprietor and friend of Tubman (Janelle Monáe ),

Filmed entirely on location in the State of Virginia where slavery ran long and deep, gives an authentic backdrop to Herstory of life as a slave and former slave in the deep south..

HARRIET is a film that should be seen, and not merely for an entertainment value, yet for the significance of Harriet Tubman’s to American  Herstory.

Release dates:   September 10, 2019 (TIFF)
November 1, 2019 (US)

Running time:       125 minutes                                  Country:                  US
Director:                  Kasi Lemmons
Screenplay:             Kasi Lemmons, Gregory Allen Howard
Producer:                Debra Martin Chase, Daniela Taplin Lundberg , Gregory Allen Howard
Story :                     Gregory Allen Howard
Cast:                        Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, Janelle Monáe, Nettles, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Clarke Peters, Henry Hunter Hall, Zackary Momoh , Mitchell Hoog, Deborah Ayorinde, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Omar Dorsey, Tory Kittles, Tim Guinee , Joseph Lee Anderson, Brian K. Landis, Antonio J. Bell, Willie Raysor Music:                     Terence Blanchard
Cinematographer: John Toll
Editor:                     Wyatt Smith
Production Cos   :Perfect World Pictures, New Balloon, Stay Gold Features
Distributor:           Focus Features