Amazing Grace (2006)
Directed by Michael Apted
The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.
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He sings “Just as I Am” and “Amazing Grace” without a wink, without a hint of the Tenacious D/”School of Rock” metal belter you know he pines to be.
Her brother Leon, for instance, is more interested in showing off the friend he is bringing back from college, the chocolate heir Paul Marshall (Benedict Cumberbatch, memorable as William Pitt in "Amazing Grace").
This device works only fitfully, but director Steven Knight — who wrote the screenplays for Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises, Close Circuit and Amazing Grace — uses it to round out Locke’s character.
Mr. Knight has written fine screenplays in the past—among them "Dirty Pretty Things," "Eastern Promises" and "Amazing Grace."
An all-around screenwriter at home in multiple genres (his credits include "Dirty Pretty Things," "Eastern Promises" and "Amazing Grace"), Knight has craftily created a situation so involving we don't have the leisure to focus on how contrived it is.