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The Journey of August King

6.7 91 mins Drama   1995
Miramax   Addis-Wechsler Productions  
Director(s): John Duigan

The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does every year after selling his produce and purchasing the stock and goods he will need to survive the winter. On his journey, he comes upon a run-away slave, a young woman about 19 and August King must decide to violate the law and help this slave to freedom or else leave her to be hunted down and, ultimately, returned to her slave owner.

Casts of The Journey of August King

Jason Patric

as August King

Thandiwe Newton

as Annalees

Larry Drake

as Olaf Singletary

Sam Waterston

as Mooney Wright

Eric Mabius

as Hal Wright

Sarah-Jane Wylde

as Ida Wright

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