Roots: The Gift

Roots: The Gift

Release Date: 1988-12-11

Overview: On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.

Rating: 6.8 / 10

Cast

LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton

as Kunta Kinte

Louis Gossett Jr.

Louis Gossett Jr.

as Fiddler

Avery Brooks

Avery Brooks

as Cletus Moyer

Kate Mulgrew

Kate Mulgrew

as Hattie Carraway

Shaun Cassidy

Shaun Cassidy

as Edmund Parker, Jr.

Crew

  • Kevin Hooks - Director

  • Gerald Fried - Original Music Composer

  • Mark Wolper - Producer

  • Bernard Sofronski - Executive Producer

  • David L. Wolper - Executive Producer

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