AccessMyLibrary : Search Information that Libraries Trust AccessMyLibrary | News, Research, and Information that Libraries Trust

AccessMyLibrary    Browse    T    The New Yorker    FREE SPIRITS.(Movie review)

FREE SPIRITS.(Movie review)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 05-MAR-07

Author: Denby, David
How to access the full article: Free access to all articles is available courtesy of your local library. To access the full article click the "See the full article" button below. You will need your US library barcode or password.

Bookmark this article

Print this article

Link to this article

Email this article

Digg It!

Add to del.icio.us

RSS

COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.

Movie Listings

The Film File

"Amazing Grace," a vibrant historical epic about the ending of the slave trade in the British Empire, offers what might be called an ideal of virile ethical activity. William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd), the son of a wealthy merchant, enters the House of Commons in 1780, when he is all of twenty-one years old; his college friend William Pitt the Younger (Benedict Cumberbach), the son of the former Prime Minister, also twenty-one, enters the Commons the following year. An observer watching them race around a country estate together might think they are planning some prank, like filling the decanters in the Commons waiting rooms with vinegar. They are actually planning the moral reform of the Empire. In an early scene, Pitt, suppressing a grin, advises Wilberforce of his intention to become Prime Minister immediately, which he does, at the age of twenty-four, in 1783. The friends, too young to be abashed by their own presumption, take on the slave-trade interests--a good part of the upper class, which was making a fortune from it--as...

Read the full article for free courtesy of your local library.


What's on AccessMyLibrary?

31,671,718 articles
in the following categories:

Arts, Business, Consumer News, Culture & Society, Education, Government, Personal Interest, Health, News, Science & Technology


© 2008 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning  | All Rights Reserved | About this Service | About The Gale Group, a part of Cengage Learning
                                            Privacy Policy | Site Map | Content Licensing | Contact Us | Link to us
      Other Gale sites: Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever.com | WiseTo Social Issues