12 Years a Slave

(Fox Searchlight Pictures) Release Date: October 18, 2013 DVD Release Date: March 4, 2014 Director: Steve McQueen Writer: John Ridley Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Garret Dillahunt, Paul Giamatti, Scoot McNairy, Lupita Nyong’o, Adepero Oduye, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, Michael Kenneth Williams, Alfre Woodard, Chris Chalk, Taran Killam, Bill Camp Plot: In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Genre: Drama, History IMDb: tt2024544