Opens Friday, Dec 27, 2013 Synopsis: Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup, the New York State citizen who was kidnapped and made to work on a plantation in New Orleans in the 1800s. Steve McQueen (Hunger) directs from a script he co-wrote with John Ridley, based in part by Northup's memoir. Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Paulson, and Paul Giamatti co-star. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Paulson Movie Details Movie Review

...stories is a modest telling of a life lived in full. "An American Story," by Solomon Northup, read by Allen Gilmore (non-fiction). When Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York with his wife and children, was offered a...