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: Delivers a tour-de-force performance, conveying Solomon's internal resilience and shifting despair primarily through his expressive eyes and silence. Lupita Nyong’o

Solomon is drugged, kidnapped, and sold to a slave trader named James Burch (played by Garret Dillahunt), who takes him to Washington D.C. and then to New Orleans, where he is sold to a plantation owner named William Ford (played by Benedict Cumberbatch). Ford is a relatively kind master, but Solomon is still a slave and longs to return to his family. 12 years a slave -film-

Then came Edwin Epps.