120 minutes
4/23/2000
Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butler. Moving with him from Philadelphia to his Georgia plantation, Fanny sees slavery firsthand, and her outrage leads her to help the family's slaves in open defiance of her spouse. Undaunted by the consequences, Fanny eventually writes a book that strengthens the anti-slavery movement.
Jane Seymour
as Fanny Kemble Butler
Keith Carradine
as Pierce Butler
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
as Joe
Janet-Laine Green
as Elizabeth Sedgwick
James Keach
as Dr. Huston
Arlene Duncan
as Harriet
Eugene Byrd
as Jack
Sharon Washington
as Psyche
Brett Porter
as Owen Parker
Gerard Parkes
as Charles Kemble
Kayla Perlmutter
as Young Sarah
Bernard Browne
as Sam Swift
Catherine Hayos
as Julia
Rick Demas
as Brutus
Jackie Richardson
as Daphne
Peter Mensah
as Quaka
Esther Cañadas
as Esther
Lili Francks
as Aunt Jerusalem
Colin Fox
as John Quincy Adams
François Klanfer
as Daniel Webster
Richard Yearwood
as Habersham