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The 12 Years a Slave Blu-ray presents Steve McQueen’s 2013 drama based on Solomon Northup’s memoir, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong’o. The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. This is a brand-new copy, in stock and dispatched within 2 business days. Add it to your cart today.
| Format | Blu-ray |
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| Discs | 1 |
| Condition | New |
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The 12 Years a Slave Blu-ray brings home Steve McQueen's 2013 historical drama, winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup, a free Black man from New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, in a film adapted from Northup's own 1853 memoir.
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In 1841, Solomon Northup is a free violinist living in Saratoga Springs, New York, with his wife and children. Two men offer him a short-term job playing music in Washington, D.C. Instead, they drug him and hand him over to a slave trader.
When Solomon insists that he is a free man, he is beaten and shipped to New Orleans, where he is sold under a new name, Platt. The film follows his years in slavery, as Northup later recorded them in his memoir.
Michael Fassbender plays Edwin Epps, Lupita Nyong'o plays Patsey, and Benedict Cumberbatch plays William Ford. Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Paulson, Alfre Woodard and Brad Pitt round out the cast of the 12 Years a Slave movie.
The film won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay for John Ridley and Best Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong'o. It also won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama.
12 Years a Slave (2013) opened in limited US theaters on October 18 and went wide on November 8, 2013. It arrived on DVD and Blu-ray on March 4, 2014. Its award-winning performances make the 12 Years a Slave Blu-ray a strong addition to any collection of modern classics.
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12 Years a Slave Blu-ray: Questions Buyers Ask
Is 12 Years a Slave based on a true story?
Yes. It adapts Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir about his kidnapping and enslavement.
Will the 12 Years a Slave Blu-ray play in my DVD player?
No. It needs a Blu-ray player or a console that plays Blu-ray discs.
Is this copy new?
Yes. It is a brand-new copy, and our 30-day return policy covers your purchase.
How long is the film?
It runs 134 minutes.
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Karen Hofferber –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
A Superb Film Embodying the Best of Period Drama & True-Story Film-Making
It’s easy to see why this film was awarded with 9 Oscar nominations and multiple Oscar wins (including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress). “12 Years a Slave” is the true story of a free Black man residing in NY who was kidnapped and enslaved for 12 years in the Deep South during the pre-Civil War era. Be forewarned: the movie depicts the horrors and violence of slavery in graphic and unflinching honesty, so if you are watching this with age-appropriate youth you will want to spend some time discussing what they will they see first.
The story is gripping and the acting is superb. There are many scenes that moved me to tears — including Solomon Northrup’s (masterfully acted by Chiwetel Ejiofor) realization that he has been duped by two White men into a life of slavery, and a heartbreaking scene where plantation slave Patsey (in a tour-de-force performance played by Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o) begs to be spared from punishment for leaving the plantation simply to procure a sliver of soap so she can wash the dirt and sweat of the cotton fields off her exhausted body.
This movie showcases beautiful cinematography and is rich with complex characters who have both admirable and less-admirable qualities (the way I like it!), and it is unflinching in it’s depiction of the horrors and violence of slavery (rightly so, in my opinion). But it rises above a simply historical review of events in its story-telling, which depicts human cruelty vividly but also conveys an ultimately uplifting story of faith, survival, family bonds, and what can happen when good people do the right thing. A Must See — Highly Recommended!
R Sumners –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
“12 Years a Slave” is a masterpiece.
I watched “12 Years a Slave” tonight, or should I say cried through most of it. A brutally painful, difficult film to watch, at the same time impossible to turn away from. As much as I have ever known about the atrocity of slavery in this country, nothing really prepared me for the intensity of this film. It is incomprehensible to me, hard to wrap my mind around, the fact that in this country, these things actually happened, that slavery festered like an abscess for so long as part of the history of this country, and that the vestiges of the “peculiar institution” continue to linger to this day, poisoning the hearts and souls of so many Americans who have the audacity to try to apologize and defend and minimize the profound impact it had on so many lives, and continues to have. To describe the film as emotionally powerful is to not do it justice. Steve McQueen is a brilliant director, unflinching as a storyteller, who has succeeded in eliciting from his actors some of the most powerful performances I’ve seen on film. McQueen makes frequent use of very long screen shots, holding the camera on the subject far longer than one would expect, often to purposely draw the viewer into the agonizing brutality of a scene, but just as often to focus on the raw emotion of a human face who has lived through unspeakable things no one should every have had to live through. The result is at once absorbing and intensely discomforting. McQueen spares us nothing in his portrayal of the barbarously cruel and complete affront to human dignity that was slavery, nor should he, nor should anyone….a film this raw and honest in its portrayal of one of the darkest volumes of our history as a nation, was a long time coming; far too long, I think. This is not a film that anyone should miss.
webhawk50 –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
12 Years A Slave: a good but slightly disappointing movie
I’m not sure what I was expecting when I eagerly started to watch 12 Years a Slave. Quite frankly, it initially left me disappointed on several levels in spite of the fact that it is a good movie and well worth the watch. My first gut reaction is that it bore an uncanny resemblance to The Passion of Christ, a movie that I thoroughly despised for it’s ridiculous tediousness. The problem I have is this: simply watching people getting bludgeoned, whipped, kicked and lynched over and over and over in the most brutal ways imaginable does not a good movie make. Like the details that were the basis of “The Passion of Christ”, most of us are fully aware of the brutality of slavery as well as the Biblical narrative of the scourging of Jesus. Not only that, most of us have also watched this brutality over and over again throughout the years in many other movies; just not to the extreme degree as depicted in “12 Years..” and “The Passion…” Having said all of that, “12 Years a Slave” was a far, far better movie than “The Passion..” At least it touched upon the main plot points of the memoirs of Solomon Northrup. I also have to say that the acting in “12 Years” was first rate as were the set designs, costuming, etc.
“12 Years” is, in my opinion, a good movie but not a great movie. I do think that it was highly over-rated. It is not a movie I would want to watch again and again. I have watched it twice through already, primarily because my first reaction was decidedly lukewarm at best, simply because of the previously described near-tediousness of it’s brutality. It was my second viewing of 12 Years, however, that I really learned to appreciate the masterful work of this film and therefore changed many of my first somewhat negative reactions.
12 Years a Slave is indeed a very gut-wrenching, emotional film and is well worth the watch. I would recommend it to anyone except those who are squeamish about blood, gore, violence and the vicious side of human nature. This is probably THE definitive film on the nature of slavery in spite of what I’ve said before about it having been done before. 12 Years a Slave probably captures the very essence of slavery better than any other film ever made about the subject, so it gets my recommendation in spite of my minor disappointments.