The read
Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do. Most of the 649 2020s history movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
Rotten Tomatoes67%
Metacritic39/100
Audiences rate it 21 points higher than critics do.
99 audience votes
Key crew
- Javier NavarreteOriginal Music Composer
- Mark AminDirector
- Pat CharlesWriter
- Mark AminWriter
Cast
- Dayo OkeniyiShields Green
- Bruce DernLevi Coffin
- James CromwellJohn Brown
- Kat GrahamDelores
- Ben RobsonLuke McCabe
- Naturi NaughtonSarah Green
- Paul ScheerDuvane Henderson
- Keean JohnsonRufus Kelly
- M.C. GaineyRandolph Stevens
- Mykelti WilliamsonTruesdale
- Harry LennixFrederick Douglas
- Nicholas LoganGunther Bowman
