TY  - ADVS
AU  -  McQueen, Steve
AU  - Pitt,Brad
AU  - Ejiofor,Chiwetel
AU  - Williams,Michael Kenneth
AU  - Fassbender,Michael
AU  - Northup,Solomon
TI  - 12 years a slave 
AV  - CGF 2215-2222 (viewing print) 
U1  - 791.4372 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - United States
PB  - Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Drama
KW  - Plantation life
KW  - Racism
KW  - United States
KW  - Biographical films
KW  - Historical films
KW  - Feature films
KW  - Fiction films
N1  - Based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup; Aspect ratio is 2.35:1; Not viewed; Sources used: copyright description; Internet movie database WWW site, viewed August 9, 2016; Copyright staff catalog, viewed August 9, 2016; OCLC database, viewed August 9, 2016; Variety WWW site, review date August 30, 2013, viewed August 9, 2016; Executive producers, Tessa Ross, John Ridley ; camera, Sean Bobbitt ; editor, Joe Walker ; music, Hans Zimmer ; production designer, Adam Stockhausen ; costume designer, Patricia Norris ; sound, Kirk Francis ; visual effects supervisor, Dottie Starling; Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender
N2  - "Solomon Northup is a free black man in 1840s America. He makes his living as a fiddle player, and his wife is a teacher. He is shanghaied by a pair of nefarious white men, and soon finds himself on a ship headed to New Orleans where he is informed he will be called Platt and is sold into slavery by an unscrupulous businessman. As he toils away for the kindhearted but conflicted plantation owner Mr. Ford, who recognizes that Platt is both educated and an artist, he butts head with Ford's underlings, especially the casually cruel Tibeats. After they have a violent altercation, Ford fears for his slave's life and sells him to Mr. Epps, an alcoholic sadist who owns a cotton plantation. Though Epps reads from the bible to his property, as he frequently refers to his slaves, he is himself not immune to sins of the flesh. He has taken the young Patsey -- his best cotton picker -- as his lover, and this doesn't sit well at all with his severe wife, whose particular hatred for blacks and her jealousy fuels her many degrading actions toward Patsey. Solomon bides his time, attempts to preserve a modicum of self-respect, and waits for the chance to reclaim his rightful name as well as his family"--Allmovie WWW site, viewed August 24, 2016
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