Amazing Grace

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Amazing Grace is a 2006 biopic on famous abolitionist William Wilberforce, and his fight to demolish Britain's slave trade, starring Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Not to be confused with Amazing Freaking Grace, the actual song.

Tropes used in Amazing Grace include:

One of Wilberforce's supporters: I sent a note of thanks to those who voted for us.
Thomas Clarkson: Oh, how sweet of you.

Duke of Clarence: Revolution is like the pox. It spreads from person to person.
William Wilberforce: I bow to my honorable friend's superior knowledge and experience in all matters regarding the pox.

  • Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone: William and Barbara are shoved at each other at every single possible opportunity. Neither is amused. They end up together anyway.
  • Servile Snarker: Richard, Wilberforce's butler.
  • Shaming the Mob: Wilberforce wines and dines a bunch of important people on a shipdeck, complete with a fancy music quartet, and then sails them straight past the Madagascar--a slave ship. It works.