Belle

Superb acting and costumes dominate this captivating, touching, factually based, start-studded (Miranda Richardson, Matthew Goode, Tom Felton, and Penelope Wilton), 104-mimute film in which beautiful, smart, dark-skinned Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mabatha-Raw) grows up with her blonde, aristocratic cousin (Sarah Gadon) on the rolling country estate of her uncle Lord Chief Justice (Tom Wilkinson) and his wife (Emily Watson) and gently and bravely navigates the prejudiced society of 1780s England while falling for the handsome vicar's son (Sam Reid) who is trying to bring the injustice and inhumanity of slavery to the forefront as a promising attorney.
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