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Alex Haley's Queen is a american film directed by John Erman released in USA on 14 february 1993 with Halle Berry
Alex Haley's Queen (1993)
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Add to a movie listAlex Haley's Queen (also known as Queen) is a 1993 American television miniseries that aired in three installments on February 14, 16, and 18 on CBS. The miniseries is an adaptation of the novel Queen: The Story of an American Family, by Alex Haley and David Stevens. The novel is based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, Haley's paternal grandmother. Alex Haley died in February 1992 before completing the novel. It was later finished by David Stevens and published in 1993. Stevens also wrote the screenplay for the miniseries.
Alex Haley's Queen was directed by John Erman, and stars Halle Berry in the title role. It tells the life story of a young woman and it shows the problems which biracial slaves and former slaves faced in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries. Throughout her life, Queen struggles to fit into the two cultures of her heritage, and at times each side shuns her.
^ Dudek, Duane (February 6, 1993). "Alex Haley's crowning finales to his "Roots"". The Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 1C. Retrieved February 25, 2010.
^ Fearn-Banks, Kathleen (2009). The A to Z of African-American Television. Scarecrow Press. p. 7. ISBN 0-810-86348-0.
^ Kujoory, Parvin (1995). Black Slavery in America: An Annotated Mediagraphy. Scarecrow Press. p. 116. ISBN 0-810-83072-8.
^ Jordan, Tina (May 14, 1993). "In Queen, Alex Haley's Roots Are Showing". ew.com. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
^ Moore, Frazier (February 14, 1993). "'Queen' Director John Erman is Successful, Invisible - And Used to It". The Bonham Daily Favorite. p. 3. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
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The series begins with the friendly relationship between James Jackson Jr. (Tim Daly), the son of the plantation owner, and one of the slaves, Easter (Jasmine Guy), at the Jackson estate, known as Forks of Cypress, near Florence in northern Alabama. James and Easter have grown up together (within the social limits of the plantation culture), and gradually their feelings for each other have developed into romance. Easter is the daughter of an African-American house slave, Captain Jack (Paul Winfield), and his true love, Annie, another slave, who is part-Cherokee, and who is no longer on the Jackson property.Actors
Halle Berry
(Queen)
Danny Glover
(Alec Haley)
Christopher Allport
(Union Officer)
Jasmine Guy
(Easter)
Timothy Daly
(Col. James Jackson Jr.)
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