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This essay is about La Amistad movie that we saw in class. The movie had many characters and was speak in many languages that are the following: English, Mende, and Spanish. The movie was directed by Steven Spielberg which is a famous director by directing movies like the ones of Jurassic park and jaws. The main actors who appeared in this movie are Morgan freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Dijimon Hounsou, and Matthew McConaughey. The music that was in this movie was by John Williams. The complete movie was edited by Michael Kahn. The production company of this movie was HBO Films. The movie was distributed by DreamWorks Pictures, is a really famous option of distribution because had produced movies like Shrek and Madagascar. The movie was launched December 10 1997 in the movie theater. Something interesting about this movie is that this movie was the second which was distributed by DreamWorks Pictures, The Peacemaker was the first one of DreamWorks Pictures. The time that the movie take of recording were like 2 or 3 years. The movie has a duration of 154 minutes or 2 hours and 34 minutes. The budget that they had for this movie was $36 million and the Box office was $44.2 million. The historical setting of this movie was 1839. Now we’re going to talk about the characters of this movie. John …show more content…

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