River of Hope

Given that this movie is actually based on real people and real events (Google Sam and Mary Cabell) I was VERY disappointed! Its a period piece, but the actress who played Mary, who was a slave, didn't act in the vein of a slave (as do most in time pieces of this nature). Even the way she SPOKE, her dialect, was wrong. The lines of the actors were loose, bland, off and just strange! The verbal exchanges between Mary and Sam, or Mary and anyone else in the movie were odd, because they would not have been allowed in that time period. The actors are no where near stellar, but one would at least expect them to act! I've seen bad movies before, but this was worse than bad. It could have been done SO much better than it was.