Gore Vidal's Lincoln

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Gore Vidal's Lincoln (1988)

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The progress of the war is seen through Lincoln’s eyes, a very human figure as he contends with Generals who won’t fight and politicians who scheme to usurp him.

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Title	Gore Vidal's Lincoln (1988)
Runtime	3 hr. 09 min.
Studio	Screen Media
Genres	Drama
Description	The progress of the war is seen through Lincoln’s eyes, a very human figure as he contends with Generals who won’t fight and politicians who scheme to usurp him. His wife (Mary Tyler Moore) is driven to the edge of madness by the death of her son and her deteriorating mental health causes him great pain. But after a war more ferocious and bloody than anyone has imagines possible, Lincoln lives just long enough to see his vision realizes before his life is cut tragically by an assassins bullet.

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Season:Episode	Title		Type	Runtime	Air Date	User Rating	Queue
-	Gore Vidal's Lincoln		Teaser Trailer	01:49	03/27/1988

about 1 year ago

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Good movie it portrays the Lincoln family in a more human light than reading about them in a history book. The problem is that there are SO MANY commercials. 16 in total with the opening commercial. I would rather watch it on broad cast TV with that many interruptions. Common HULU what's with 16 commercials in one movie? It's ridiculous!

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hated waterson and moore as mr and mrs. otherwise a fair movie

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It was your fourth exclamation point that convinced me. See 4 other replies

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Good lord, you're right! LOL. See 1 other reply

about 1 year ago

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I managed to get the Geico Lincoln ad three times while watching this. Frustratingly, Sam Waterston is so clearly Sam Waterston that I couldn't see him as Lincoln for the entire movie. I don't know who plays Lincoln in the Geico commercial, but I would have preferred him to be Lincoln for the whole movie, not just the commercials.

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I think I saw this in grade school when it first came out. Thought it was pretty boring then, but after watching it again I think it's a good movie about Lincoln himself rather than being completely historically accurate.

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Reember this movie is based on a novel. Gore Vidal frankly admits that he invented conversations where diaries did not explain events. But Vidal read many things about Lincoln before writing the novel, including a life of Lincoln written by his law partner, William Herndon. Sec. of State William Seward was looking to let the South go and replace it with annexation of Canada to build a nation of the greater size. His purchase of Alaska in 1867 was a step towards that dream. And Lincoln was elected by a minority of the voting population and had to make a lot of political deals with a lot of people to maintain a governing coalition, win the war and keep the country from being dismembered by European interests who wanted the ports, the cotton and the farms.

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