Emancipation (2022)
Emancipation (2022)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Will Smith
Peter / Producer
Ben Foster
Jim Fassel
Charmaine Bingwa
Dodienne
Gilbert Owuor
Gordon
Ronnie Gene Blevins
Harrington
Aaron Moten
Knowls
Jabbar Lewis
Tomas
Michael Luwoye
John
Steven Ogg
Howard
Grant Harvey
Leeds
Mustafa Shakir
Lt. Andrew Cailloux
Paul Ben-Victor
Major G. Halstead
David Denman
General William Dwight
Jesse C. Boyd
Mike Hurley
Imani Pullum
Betsy
Jeremiah Friedlander
Scipion
Jordyn McIntosh
Laurette
Landon Chase Dubois
Little Peter
Austin Alexander
Trapp
Britton Webb
Bijoux
Lindsay Graham Ahanonu
CastingDirector
Jayson Warner Smith
Captain John Lyons
Mary Vernieu
CastingDirector
Jeremy Dean
Confederate Army Engineer
Thomas Johnston
RR Confederate Soldier
Clyde Jones
Priest
Jared Bankens
Deserter #1
Josh Whites
Deserter #2
Jeff Pearson
Deserter #3
Merah Benoit
Young Thomas Girl
Sheridan Walker
Mitilde
Mark Ashworth
R Louis Fabian
K. Steele
Sister Margaret
Walker Babington
McPherson
Dave Davis
Oliver
Jason Dowies
Confederate Gunnery
Donald Paul
Anselino Planciancois
Damien D. Smith
Sgt Maj James Ingraham
Joshua Stenvick
Confederate Officer - TRB
Adam Stephenson
Col John Thomas
Melissa Lehman
Mrs John Thomas
Joe Lyle
LNG Drummer
Brandon Dauphin
Enslaved Shirtless Man
Bryan Jonathan Allen
LNG Soldier #1
Kenneth Walter Jones
LNG Soldier #2
Ruby Lain Stansberry Faiferek
Screaming Enslaved Woman
Hick Cheramie
Jail Cart Soldier
Gregory Kennedy
Jail Cart Enslaved / Dying Man
Derome Alexander Seals
Enslaved Man #1
Bathsheba Lofton Smith
Enslaved Woman #1
Romalace James
Enslaved Man #2
Clarence Joseph Morgan III
Enslaved Man #3
Jocelyne Croisier
Enslaved Woman #2
Scierra Lynn LeGarde
Enslaved Woman #3
Anika Simone Ofori
Enslaved Woman #4
Dominicia Hayes
Enslaved Woman #5
Ja'Ques Austin
Young LNG Soldier
Harlan Glenn Groom
Union Soldier #1
Christopher Ferguson
Lighting Programmer
Robert Richardson
Director of Photography
Marcelo Zarvos
Original Music Composer
Cynthia La Jeunesse
Set Decoration
Scott Greenberg
Executive Producer
Anne Costa
Art Direction
Francine Jamison-Tanchuck
Costume Design
Naomi Shohan
Production Design
Tom Frohling
Supervising Art Director
Chris Brigham
Executive Producer
Bill Collage
Writer
Shamim Seifzadeh
Art Direction
Glen Basner
Executive Producer
Heather Washington
Executive Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 2, 2022
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 12m
Content RatingR
Filming LocationsNew Orleans, United States
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Emancipation is a 2022 American historical action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by William N. Collage, and co-produced by Will Smith, who stars as a runaway slave headed for Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the 1860s, after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery in secessionist Confederate states, surviving the swamps while being chased by slave catchers and their dogs. Ben Foster stars as a ruthless slave hunter and Charmaine Bingwa as an enslaved wife and mother.
The film is loosely based on the life of a self-emancipated slave, known as either Gordon or "Whipped Peter". That story was made famous by the photograph of a man's bare back heavily scourged from an overseer's whippings, which was published worldwide as magazine illustrations in 1863, and gave the abolitionist movement proof of the cruelty of slavery. Producer Joey McFarland began researching that story in 2018, and hired Collage to write the script.
The film was officially announced in June 2020, with Fuqua to direct and Smith to star. Filming was in Louisiana between July and August 2021, with Apple paying US$130 million to acquire the rights to the film, outbidding several other studios.
It was screened in Washington, D.C., on October 1, 2022, and released in select cinemas on December 2, 2022, then streamed on December 9 on Apple TV+. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Smith's performance, but criticized the screenplay and its handling of real-life events.