Release Date
November 9, 2012 (Limited)
November 16, 2012
November 16, 2012
DVD Release Date
March 26, 2013 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Steven Spielberg
Writer
Tony Kushner
Cast
Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, Joseph Cross, David Costabile, Byron Jennings, Dakin Matthews, Boris McGiver, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong, David Warshofsky
Studio
Running Time
150 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language, some images of carnage and intense scene of war violence
What is Lincoln about?
Based on the best-selling book, "Team of Rivals," by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the screenplay has been written by the Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award winner, and Academy Award nominated writer Tony Kushner. The film will focus on the political collision of Lincoln and the powerful men of his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the Civil War.... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
Where's John Wilkes Booth when you need him? Steven Spielberg's highly anticipated Lincoln - starring none other than Daniel Day-Lewis - has finally trotted into theaters, but the sweeping epic it could have and should have been instead is a two-and-a-half-hour-long courtroom procedural that will bore general audiences.
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