Roots: The Gift
Summary:
Deviating from the storyline of Alex Haley's book, and the classic 1977 miniseries that followed, the plotline of 1988's Roots: The Gift finds African-born slave Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) and his plantation friend Fiddler (Louis Gossett Jr.) helping freed black man Cletus Moyer (Avery Brooks) smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Roots: The Gift was set during Christmas o... Full Summary >>
Cast:
LeVar Burton - (Kunta Kinte)
Louis Gossett, Jr. - (Fiddler)
Avery Brooks - (Cletus)
Shaun Cassidy - (Edmund Jr.)
Jerry Hardin - (Dr. Reynolds)
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