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Harriet is a 2019 American biographical film about abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Directed by Kasi Lemmons, who wrote the screenplay with Gregory Allen Howard, it stars Cynthia Erivo as Tubman, with Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, and Janelle Monáe in supporting roles.
A biography about Harriet Tubman had been in the works for years, with several actresses, including Viola Davis, rumored to star. Erivo was cast in February 2017, and much of the cast and crew joined the following year. Filming took place in Virginia from October to December 2018.
Harriet had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 1, 2019, by Focus Features. It received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised Erivo's performance and found the film sincere but formulaic. For her performance in the film, Erivo received nominations at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and the Screen Actors Guild. And for writing the song, "Stand Up”, Erivo and Joshuah Brian Campbell received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.
In 1840s Maryland, a slave state, Araminta "Minty" Ross is newly married to a freedman, John Tubman, but still a slave herself on the Brodess farm, along with her mother and sister, while two other sisters had been sold to another slave owner in the South. Her father, also a freedman, approaches Mr. Brodess about her freedom, as Brodess's own great-grandfather had agreed to free Minty's mother, Harriet "Rit" Ross, and her family when she turned 45. Even though Rit is now 57, Mr. Brodess insists they will always be slaves, and tears up the letter from a lawyer John had hired. Brodess's adult son Gideon mocks Minty for praying for God to take Mr. Brodess, saying God does not care about the prayers of slaves. Mr. Brodess dies shortly afterward, alarming Gideon, who decides to sell Minty as punishment. Minty, who suffers "spells" since being struck in the head as a girl, has a vision of herself escaping to freedom, and she decides to run.
Minty tells John to stay behind, as he would lose his own freedom if caught escaping with her, but plans to meet up with him later. Gideon pursues her to a bridge over a river, where he promises not to sell her, but she jumps anyway, saying she will live free or die. Minty is presumed drowned but successfully makes it to Philadelphia via the Underground Railroad, assisted by Quakers and other abolitionists. In Philadelphia, she meets Marie Buchanon, the fashionable daughter of a freed slave who was born free and is now a boarding-house proprietor, and William Still, an abolitionist and writer. William encourages her to take a new free name, and she calls herself Harriet after her mother. After a few months in Philadelphia, against the advice of Marie and William, Harriet decides to go back for John. She successfully makes it to John's homestead only to find he has remarried, believing she was dead, and is expecting a baby with his new wife.
Devastated, Harriet decides to free her family, but her sister refuses to leave her two children. Harriet continues to return, guiding dozens of slaves to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and a myth begins to grow about the person responsible, who is dubbed Moses. However, when the Fugitive Slave Act passes, the escaped slaves are in jeopardy of being brought back even from free states. Gideon is livid when he discovers that she is "Moses," especially as his fellow slave owners demand he compensate them for Harriet freeing their own slaves. Gideon pursues her to Philadelphia along with the slave hunter Bigger Long, who kills Marie. Harriet flees to Canada.
In Canada, Harriet insists that the Underground Railroad must continue. She continues to help runaway slaves flee all the way to Canada, though her sister dies before she can save her. Over time, the Brodess farm falls into financial ruin. Mrs. Brodess vows to catch Harriet, using her sister's children as bait, but Harriet's team overwhelms Gideon's siblings and retrieves the last remaining Brodess slaves. In a final confrontation, Bigger Long winds up shot to death, but Harriet lets Gideon live, telling him of her vision of Gideon's cause defeated by American Civil War.
An epilogue states she personally freed more than 70 slaves on the Underground Railroad and returned as a Union spy during the Civil War, leading 150 black soldiers, who freed over 750 slaves.
Directed by Kasi Lemmons
Produced by
Debra Martin Chase
Daniela Taplin Lundberg
Gregory Allen Howard
Screenplay by
Gregory Allen Howard
Kasi Lemmons
Story by Gregory Allen Howard
Starring
Cynthia Erivo
Leslie Odom Jr.
Joe Alwyn
Janelle Monáe
Music by Terence Blanchard
Cinematography John Toll
Edited by Wyatt Smith
Production
companies
Perfect World Pictures
New Balloon
Stay Gold Features
Distributed by Focus Features
Release date
September 10, 2019 (TIFF)
November 1, 2019 (United States)
Running time
125 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $17 million
Box office $43.3 million
Cast :
Cynthia Erivo as Araminta "Minty" Ross / Harriet Tubman
Leslie Odom Jr. as William Still, a Philadelphia abolitionist who connects Harriet with the Underground Railroad
Joe Alwyn as Gideon Brodess, Harriet's former owner
Clarke Peters as Ben Ross, Harriet's father
Vanessa Bell Calloway as Rit Ross, Harriet's mother
Vondie Curtis-Hall as Reverend Samuel Green, a secretly-abolitionist freedman
Jennifer Nettles as Eliza Brodess, Gideon's mother
Janelle Monáe as Marie Buchanon, the owner of a boarding house in Philadelphia who befriends Harriet
Omar Dorsey as Bigger Long, a notorious black slave-catcher
Tim Guinee as abolitionist Thomas Garrett
Zackary Momoh as John Tubman, a freedman who's Harriet's first husband
Deborah Olayinka Ayorinde as Rachel Ross, Harriet's sister
Henry Hunter Hall as Walter, a black slave-tracker who eventually switches to Harriet's side
Rakeem Laws as Jasper Marley, the captain of the ship that helps the Underground Railroad
Nick Basta as Foxx, the Brodess Farm's rancher
Tory Kittles as abolitionist Frederick Douglass
William L. Thomas as abolitionist U.S. Senator Seward
A biography about Harriet Tubman had been in the works for years, with several actresses, including Viola Davis, rumored to star. Erivo was cast in February 2017, and much of the cast and crew joined the following year. Filming took place in Virginia from October to December 2018.
Harriet had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 1, 2019, by Focus Features. It received generally favorable reviews from critics, who praised Erivo's performance and found the film sincere but formulaic. For her performance in the film, Erivo received nominations at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and the Screen Actors Guild. And for writing the song, "Stand Up”, Erivo and Joshuah Brian Campbell received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.
In 1840s Maryland, a slave state, Araminta "Minty" Ross is newly married to a freedman, John Tubman, but still a slave herself on the Brodess farm, along with her mother and sister, while two other sisters had been sold to another slave owner in the South. Her father, also a freedman, approaches Mr. Brodess about her freedom, as Brodess's own great-grandfather had agreed to free Minty's mother, Harriet "Rit" Ross, and her family when she turned 45. Even though Rit is now 57, Mr. Brodess insists they will always be slaves, and tears up the letter from a lawyer John had hired. Brodess's adult son Gideon mocks Minty for praying for God to take Mr. Brodess, saying God does not care about the prayers of slaves. Mr. Brodess dies shortly afterward, alarming Gideon, who decides to sell Minty as punishment. Minty, who suffers "spells" since being struck in the head as a girl, has a vision of herself escaping to freedom, and she decides to run.
Minty tells John to stay behind, as he would lose his own freedom if caught escaping with her, but plans to meet up with him later. Gideon pursues her to a bridge over a river, where he promises not to sell her, but she jumps anyway, saying she will live free or die. Minty is presumed drowned but successfully makes it to Philadelphia via the Underground Railroad, assisted by Quakers and other abolitionists. In Philadelphia, she meets Marie Buchanon, the fashionable daughter of a freed slave who was born free and is now a boarding-house proprietor, and William Still, an abolitionist and writer. William encourages her to take a new free name, and she calls herself Harriet after her mother. After a few months in Philadelphia, against the advice of Marie and William, Harriet decides to go back for John. She successfully makes it to John's homestead only to find he has remarried, believing she was dead, and is expecting a baby with his new wife.
Devastated, Harriet decides to free her family, but her sister refuses to leave her two children. Harriet continues to return, guiding dozens of slaves to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and a myth begins to grow about the person responsible, who is dubbed Moses. However, when the Fugitive Slave Act passes, the escaped slaves are in jeopardy of being brought back even from free states. Gideon is livid when he discovers that she is "Moses," especially as his fellow slave owners demand he compensate them for Harriet freeing their own slaves. Gideon pursues her to Philadelphia along with the slave hunter Bigger Long, who kills Marie. Harriet flees to Canada.
In Canada, Harriet insists that the Underground Railroad must continue. She continues to help runaway slaves flee all the way to Canada, though her sister dies before she can save her. Over time, the Brodess farm falls into financial ruin. Mrs. Brodess vows to catch Harriet, using her sister's children as bait, but Harriet's team overwhelms Gideon's siblings and retrieves the last remaining Brodess slaves. In a final confrontation, Bigger Long winds up shot to death, but Harriet lets Gideon live, telling him of her vision of Gideon's cause defeated by American Civil War.
An epilogue states she personally freed more than 70 slaves on the Underground Railroad and returned as a Union spy during the Civil War, leading 150 black soldiers, who freed over 750 slaves.
Directed by Kasi Lemmons
Produced by
Debra Martin Chase
Daniela Taplin Lundberg
Gregory Allen Howard
Screenplay by
Gregory Allen Howard
Kasi Lemmons
Story by Gregory Allen Howard
Starring
Cynthia Erivo
Leslie Odom Jr.
Joe Alwyn
Janelle Monáe
Music by Terence Blanchard
Cinematography John Toll
Edited by Wyatt Smith
Production
companies
Perfect World Pictures
New Balloon
Stay Gold Features
Distributed by Focus Features
Release date
September 10, 2019 (TIFF)
November 1, 2019 (United States)
Running time
125 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $17 million
Box office $43.3 million
Cast :
Cynthia Erivo as Araminta "Minty" Ross / Harriet Tubman
Leslie Odom Jr. as William Still, a Philadelphia abolitionist who connects Harriet with the Underground Railroad
Joe Alwyn as Gideon Brodess, Harriet's former owner
Clarke Peters as Ben Ross, Harriet's father
Vanessa Bell Calloway as Rit Ross, Harriet's mother
Vondie Curtis-Hall as Reverend Samuel Green, a secretly-abolitionist freedman
Jennifer Nettles as Eliza Brodess, Gideon's mother
Janelle Monáe as Marie Buchanon, the owner of a boarding house in Philadelphia who befriends Harriet
Omar Dorsey as Bigger Long, a notorious black slave-catcher
Tim Guinee as abolitionist Thomas Garrett
Zackary Momoh as John Tubman, a freedman who's Harriet's first husband
Deborah Olayinka Ayorinde as Rachel Ross, Harriet's sister
Henry Hunter Hall as Walter, a black slave-tracker who eventually switches to Harriet's side
Rakeem Laws as Jasper Marley, the captain of the ship that helps the Underground Railroad
Nick Basta as Foxx, the Brodess Farm's rancher
Tory Kittles as abolitionist Frederick Douglass
William L. Thomas as abolitionist U.S. Senator Seward
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