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Roots: The Gift

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Calorie Rating: 141
Released: 1988-12-11
MPAA Rating: PG
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Studios: David L. Wolper Productions, Warner Bros. Television,


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.

Director / Directors

Kevin Hooks
Director


Cast

LeVar Burton
Character: Kunta Kinte
Louis Gossett Jr.
Character: Fiddler
Avery Brooks
Character: Cletus Moyer

Kate Mulgrew
Character: Hattie Carraway
Shaun Cassidy
Character: Edmund Parker, Jr.
John McMartin
Character: Edmund Parker, Sr.

Jerry Hardin
Character: William Reynolds
Annabella Price
Character: Sarah Parker
Michael Learned
Character: Amelia Parker

Fran Bennett
Character: May
Tim Russ
Character: Marcellus
Jimmie F. Skaggs
Character: Scarvie

Brandy Brown
Character: Arabella
Ernest Harden Jr.
Character: Nick
Maria Bryant
Character: Lilly

James McIntire
Character: Jubal
Lawrence Mandley
Character: Boatman
John Sherrod
Character: Driver #1

Karl Anthony Smith
Character: Gaunt Man
J. Christopher Sullivan
Character: Driver #2
Donna Howell
Character: Elly

Billy Ray Reynolds
Character: Christopher
Michael Edwards
Character: Gentleman #1
Myke R. Mueller
Character: Gentleman #2

John Murray
Character: Bishop Wadley
Alex Haley
Character: Self - presenter
Bernard Peyton
Character: Jolly

Tina Andrews
Character: Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Goldman
Character: Horseman (uncredited)
Debra Perry
Character: Slave Girl (uncredited)


Production and Crew

Gerald Fried
Original Music Composer
Bernard Sofronski
Executive Producer
David L. Wolper
Executive Producer

Mark Wolper
Producer
John A. Alonzo
Director of Photography

Bill Carroll
Unit Production Manager