Gore Vidal's Lincoln

Gore Vidal's Lincoln
by Lamont Johnson

Gore Vidal's Lincoln
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Actor: Deborah Adair, Mary Tyler Moore, Richard Mulligan, Sam Waterston, Tom Brennan (II)
Director: Lamont Johnson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 188 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-06
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Platinum Disc

Movie Reviews of Gore Vidal's Lincoln

Movie Review: Best Civil War movie
Summary: 5 Stars

This is, to my thinking, the best Civil War movie ever and a more accurate portrait of Lincoln than films have shown. Sam Watterson is dead on with the Lincoln of Gore Vidal's fine novel, and Mary Tyler Moore's Mrs. Lincoln is perfect. I was amazed that this sitcom actress could be this good. She deserved an academy award.

My only quibble is when snippets of battle were shown. The movie would have been better without them. Re-enactors were used, and re-enactors are always too old, too fat, too clean, and too self-conscious. All one has to do is look at actual photos of Civil War soldiers in the field to prove the point. And the battle scenes were inaccurate in other ways. For example, the Confederates did not fire from behind a wooden fence at Fredericksburg, but from a sunken road and a stone wall. At this same battle in the film we see trees in leaf, whereas the battle was in mid-December, and there was snow on the ground.

That aside, this is a fine piece of work, and even though the viewer knows how it ends, there is the sadness of a great tragedy.

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