Amistad
1997
**½
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne
A true story about the 1839 mutiny on the slave-ship La Amistad and the subsequant trial which tried to determine the legal rights of its captives. Steven Spielberg displays some of his visual brilliance aboard the ship, but for the most part this is a dull and long-winded court drama.
