Truman
by Frank Pierson
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Actor: Colm Feore, Diana Scarwid, Gary Sinise, James Gammon, Richard DysartDirector: Frank Pierson
Cinematographer: Paul Elliott
Editor: Lisa Fruchtman
Producer: Anthea Sylbert
Producer: Doro Bachrach
Producer: Paula Weinstein
Writer: David McCullough
Writer: Thomas Rickman
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 135 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-02-29
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Movie Reviews of Truman
Movie Review: Fine film
Summary: 4 Stars
Based on McCullough's excellent bio, this HBO film suffers from one thing - its only two hours long. It needed to be a TV series like John Adams. Still, they work well with what they've got and Sinise delivers a fine performance as the 33rd president, even if the make-up is a bit on the dodgy side.
Summary of Truman
Truman lived by the premise that the buck stops here. Through victory in the world war ii. The beginning of the cold war the birth of the united nations and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb this is truman. Special features: cast and crew filmographies subtitles in english french and spanish. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 09/17/2002 Starring: Gary Sinise Diana Scarwid Run time: 130 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Frank PiersonHarry S. Truman had a hard row to hoe as the 33rd president and he never enjoyed popularity while in office. Think about what occurred on Truman's watch: the bombing of Hiroshima, a nationwide railroad strike, the rise of the Southern States' Rights Party, integration of the armed forces, the ascendancy of McCarthyism, the early cold war, and finally the Korean Conflict and Truman's decision to fire General MacArthur. Few American presidents have been faced with more difficult and dangerous times than Truman. It wasn't until some 50 years later that Harry Truman, a farmer from Missouri, got his due appreciation in the history books. Truman follows the man from his beginnings as an artillery officer in WWI through his connections with Missouri's Pendergast political machine and onward to Washington. The always-excellent Gary Sinise is a perfect fit for the Truman character, having obviously studied the President's plainspoken Missouri twang and ramrod-straight bearing at great length. Diana Scarwid is also very good as Truman's long-suffering wife Bess; the film studies the relationship between the two in some depth, and also sheds light on the men who surrounded Truman in Washington. Truman's chief failing is that in its effort to detail 40 years of the man's life, certain historical events are given short shrift in order to fit them all in. Nonetheless, Sinise inhabits the character well; the scene where the President ruminates on dining alone in the White House (while Bess is back in Missouri) is a great, understated comment on the loneliness, isolation, and stress of the job. --Jerry Renshaw
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