Harriet

Action, Biography, Drama

The film is based on the life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery and led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

Directed by: Kasi Lemmons
Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, Janelle Monáe
Produced by: Debra Martin Chase, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Gregory Allen Howard
Screenplay by: Gregory Allen Howard, Kasi Lemmons
Story by: Gregory Allen Howard

Music by: Terence Blanchard
Cinematography: John Toll
Edited by: Wyatt Smith

Production companies: Perfect World Pictures, New Balloon, Stay Gold Features
Distributed by: Focus Features
Release date: September 10, 2019 (TIFF), November 1, 2019 (United States)

Running time: 125 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English

Cast

Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman, John’s wife and Ben and Rit’s daughter
Leslie Odom Jr. as William Still, a writer and abolitionist who connects Tubman with the Underground Railroad
Joe Alwyn as Gideon Brodess, Harriet's slave owner
Janelle Monáe as Marie Buchanon, a proprietor and friend of Tubman
Jennifer Nettles as Eliza
Vanessa Bell Calloway as Rit Ross, Harriet’s mother and Ben’s wife
Clarke Peters as Ben Ross, Harriet’s father and Rit’s husband
Henry Hunter Hall as Walter, a slave tracker employed to catch Tubman
Zackary Momoh as John Tubman, Harriet’s husband
Mitchell Hoog as Vince
Deborah Ayorinde as Rachel Ross
Vondie Curtis-Hall as Reverend Samuel Green
Omar Dorsey as Bigger Long
Tory Kittles as Frederick Douglass
Tim Guinee as Thomas Garrett
Joseph Lee Anderson as Robert Ross
Brian K. Landis as the Marshall
Antonio J. Bell as Henry Ross
Willie Raysor as Abraham

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