Underground(2016)
Overview
A group of slaves plan a daring 600-mile escape from a Georgia plantation. Along the way, they are aided by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the Underground Railroad as they attempt to evade the people charged with bringing them back, dead or alive.
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Top 9 Billed Cast
Noah
Rosalee
August Pullman
Elizabeth Hawkes
Cato
Ben Pullman
Ernestine
Gullah Slave (uncredited)
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