12 Years a Slave
Summary: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Runtime: 2 h 14 min
MPAA: R
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 56,671,993
International: $ 131,061,209
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