12 Years a Slave

Released Year: 2013

Certificate: A

Runtime: 134 minutes

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

IMDB Rating:

Meta Score: 96

Director: Steve McQueen

Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt

No of Votes: 640533

Gross: 56671993

Overview: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

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