Harriet
(Weekly Rental DVD)

Region 2, 1 disc(s), Interactive menus, Languages (English), Subtitles for hard of hearing (English), Bonus footage, Deleted scenes, Commentary (Feature Commentary With Director/Co-Writer Kasi Lemmons), Other documentaries ('Her Story'; 'Becoming Harriet').

Made in 2019.

Based on True events.

Credits: director, Kasi Lemmons; writer, Gregory Allen Howard; writer, Kasi Lemmons; music, Terence Blanchard; cinematographer, John Toll.

DVDN.

Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr, Joe Alwyn, Clarke Peters, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Omar J. Dorsey, Henry Hunter Hall, Tim Guinee, Nick Basta, Joseph Lee Anderson, Leslie Odom Jr., Janelle Monae.

Kasi Lemmons directs this biographical drama based on real events in which an enslaved woman successfully escapes her owners and heads for the freedom of Pennsylvania. After crossing into Pennsylvania, which had outlawed slavery, Harriet (Cynthia Erivo) begins to explore what it means to be free. However, she cannot reckon with knowing that her relatives remain enslaved in Maryland, and so returns to help them and dozens of others escape, while evading the omnipresent threat of being caught by the authorities.

BBFC code: 12a.

DVD.