12 Years a Slave2013
Director: Steve McQueen
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Michael Fassbender
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 134 minutes
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Michael Fassbender
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 134 minutes
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 film about a New York State-born free negro who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery. more »
Edwin Epps:
[about an outbreak of Cotton worm] A plague! It's damn Biblical. Two season God done sent a plague to smite me. I am near ruination. Why, Treach? What I done that God hate me so? Do I not preach His word?
Treach:
The whole Bayou sufferin'.
Edwin Epps:
I don't care nothin' fer the damn Bayou. I'm sufferin'. [looks at the slaves] It's that Godless lot. They brought this on me. I bring 'em God's word, and heathens they are, they brung me God's scorn.
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