Roots: The Gift

Name: Roots: The Gift
Director: Kevin Hooks
Released: 1988
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Louis Gossett Jr., LeVar Burton, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Shaun Cassidy

1988 · 93 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 703 VOTES · DIR. Kevin Hooks

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,050 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:13 I'm AIex HaIey, the author of Roots.

00:07:16 Put that bar down, boy.

00:11:05 -What? -Manumission, what it mean?

00:14:28 And that Moyer man. . .

00:18:33 Thank you, sir.

00:22:34 That dress is nice, dear.

00:25:48 You may provision and quarter at Granite Oaks. . .

00:29:17 Look Iike this be our accommodations for the night.

00:32:39 Darkies with guns. I teII you, Parker, just Iast week. . .

00:36:35 Do you see me happy behind a fIuttering fan, Mr. Moyer?

00:39:38 AII right, boy, get out of there.

00:42:44 Do they have cameIs in Africa, Kunta Kinte?

00:46:56 Who's gonna do it now?

00:50:28 WeII, what?

00:53:08 This is Reverend MiIIer from over in ConviIIe.

00:56:27 Yes, missy. Come with me.

01:00:49 I sIeep when the master aIIow me.

01:04:20 Get them coIoreds out of here.

01:08:31 There couId be hordes of armed savages headed this way now. . .

01:13:11 Either we stay here and die, or we gets us some freedom.

01:17:17 What's wrong?

01:21:44 -SaddIe up. -Let's go. Move it out.

01:25:06 AII right.

01:29:30 [ENGLISH]

Cast & Characters

Louis Gossett Jr. Fiddler Reynolds LeVar Burton Kunta Kinte Avery Brooks Cletus Moyer Kate Mulgrew Hattie Carraway Shaun Cassidy Edmund Parker Jr. John McMartin Edmund Parker Sr. Jerry Hardin Dr. William Reynolds Annabella Price Sarah Parker Michael Learned Amelia Parker Fran Bennett Mammy May

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,050

Dialogue density11.3 lines / min

First line00:00:13

Final line01:29:30

Production Record

DirectorKevin Hooks

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes703