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Overview

Steven Spielberg helms his long-in-the-making biopic of Abraham Lincoln for DreamWorks and Touchstone Pictures. Daniel Day-Lewis portrays the former head of state in the Tony Kushner-penned adaptation of Doris Kearns Goodwin's book Team of Rivals, which chronicles the President's time in office between 1861 and 1865 as he dealt with personal demons and politics during the Civil War. Sally Field leads a co-starring cast that includes Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Academy Award nominee John Hawkes.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/26/2013
UPC:	0786936830330
Original Release:	2012
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Walt Disney Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:30:00

Special Features

DVD feature film + bonus:; The journey to Lincoln - Steven Spielberg and his collaborators discuss the challenges and excitement of bringing this story of a complex and very human president to the screen

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Daniel Day-Lewis	Abraham Lincoln
Sally Field	Mary Todd Lincoln
David Strathairn	William Seward
Tommy Lee Jones	Thaddeus Stevens,Wounded Soldier
Joseph Gordon-Levitt	Levitt-Robert Todd
James Spader	W.N. Bilbo
Hal Holbrook	Preston Blair
John Hawkes	Robert Latham
Jackie Earle Haley	Alexander Stephens
Bruce McGill	Edwin Stanton
Tim Blake Nelson	Richard Schell
Joseph Cross	John Hay
Jared Harris	Ulysses S. Grant
Lee Pace	Fernando Wood
Peter McRobbie	George Pendleton
Gulliver McGrath	Actor
Jeremy Strong	John Nicolay
Michael Stuhlbarg	George Yeaman
Boris McGiver	Alexander Coffroth
David Costabile	James Ashley
Stephen Spinella	Asa Vintner Litton
Walton Goggins	Clay Hawkins
David Warshofsky	William Hutton
Colman Domingo	Private Harold Green
David Oyelowo	Corporal Ira Clark
Lukas Haas	First White Soldier
Dane DeHaan	Second White Soldier
Carlos Thompson	Navy Yard - Shouting Soldier
Bill Camp	Mr. Jolly
Elizabeth Marvel	Mrs. Jolly
Byron Jennings	Montgomery Blair
Julie White	Elizabeth Blair Lee
Charmaine Crowell	Actor
Ralph D. Edlow	Leo - Blair's Servant
Grainger Hines	Gideon Welles
Richard Topol	James Speed
Walt Smith	William Fessenden,Actor
Dakin Matthews	John Usher
James Ike Eichling	William Dennison
Wayne Duvall	Senator Bluff Wade
Bill Raymond	Actor
Ford Flannagan	Actor
Bob Ayers	Actor
Robert Peters	Jacob Graylor
John Moon	Edwin LeClerk
Kevin O'Donnell	Charles Hanson
Jamie Horton	Giles Stuart
Joseph Dellinger	Nelson Merrick
Rick Warner	Homer Benson
Elijah Chester	Union Army Officer
Dave Hager	Captain Nathan Saunders - River Queen
Sean Haggerty	Officer in Peace Commissioners Exchange
Michael Shiflett	Senator R.M.T. Hunter
Gregory Itzin	Judge John A. Campbell
Stephen Dunn	Actor
Stephen McKinley Henderson	Actor
Chase Edmunds	Willie Lincoln
John Hutton	Senator Charles Sumner
Robert Ruffin	Major Thompson Eckert
Drew Sease	David
John Lescault	Gustavus Fox
Scott Wichmann	Charles Benjamin
Adam Driver	Samuel Beckwith
Shirley Augustine	Actor
Sarah Wylie	Actor
Margaret Ann McGowan	Actor
Hilary Montgomery	Actor
Asa-Luke Twocrow	Ely Parker
Lancer Shull	Union Soldier - Bodyguard
George Turman	Military Hospital Doctor
Robert Wilharm	Actor
Kevin Kline	Actor
Paul Gowans	Actor
Joseph Miller	Actor
John Bellemer	Faust
Mary Dunleavy	Marguerite
Christopher Evan Welch	Clerk - Edward McPherson
Alan Sader	Sergeant at Arms
Gannon McHale	Aaron Haddam
Ken Lambert	Augustus Benjamin
Tom Belgrey	Arthur Bentleigh
Ted Johnson	John Ellis,Actor
Don Henderson Baker	Walter Appleton
Raynor Scheine	Josiah S. "Beanpole" Burton
Armistead Nelson Wellford	Nehemiah Cleary
Michael Ruff	Harold Hollister
Rich Wills	Actor
Stephen Bozzo	Actor
Christopher Alan Stewart	Sergeant-Grant's HQ
Teddy Eck	Corporal-Grant's HQ
Todd Fletcher	Walter H. Washburn
Charles Kinney	Myer Strauss
Joseph Carlson	Joseph Marstern
Michael Goodwin	Chilton A. Elliot
Christopher Boyer	General Robert E. Lee
Joe Inscoe	Actor
Edward McDonald	Daniel G. Stuart
S. Epatha Merkerson	Lydia Smith
Robert Shepherd	Dr. Joseph K. Barnes
Todd Hunter	Actor
Martin D. Dew	Actor
James Batchelder	Howard Guillefoyle
Gregory Hosaflook	John F. McKenzie
Joe Kerkes	Andrew E. Finck
William Kaffenberger	John A. Casson
Larry Van Hoose	John A. Casson
C. Brandon Marshall	Rufus Warren
David Graham	House of Representatives-Rebel Shouter
Benjamin Shirley	Actor
Henry Kidd	Actor
Joseph Frances Filipowski	Actor
Thomas Aldridge	Actor
Sidney Blackmer Jr.	Actor
Billy Caldwell	Actor
Glenn Crone	Actor
Theodore Ewald	Actor
Gary Keener	Actor
Stephen Dunford	Actor
David Doersch	Actor
Christopher Cartmill	Leonard Grover
Gloria Rueben	Elizabeth Keckley
Charmaine Crowell-White	Minerva--Blair's Servant
Michael Kennedy	Hiram Price
John Williams	Composer

Technical Credits

Steven Spielberg	Director,Producer
Tony Kushner	Screenwriter
Kathleen Kennedy	Producer
Daniel Lupi	Executive Producer,Producer
Jonathan King	Executive Producer
Jeff Skoll	Executive Producer,Producer
Ben Burtt	Sound/Sound Designer,Sound Effects
Avy Kaufman	Casting
Stuart McCowan	Sound Editor
Garrett Warren	Stunts
Anna Rane	Script Supervisor
Ronald Judkins	Sound Mixer
Doris Kearns Goodwin	Screenwriter
Kristie Macosko Krieger	Producer
Adam Somner	Producer
Eric Apps	Sound Effects
Steve Boeddeker	Sound Effects

From the B&N Reads Blog

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Editorial Reviews

Steven Spielberg has talked for years about doing a film on Abraham Lincoln, but it turns out that when he finally got around to doing it, the finished movie feels less like his than it does the screenwriter's -- Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner. The movie stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president, focusing on the last few months of Lincoln's life as he tries to manipulate Congress into passing the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which would allow people to vote regardless of race and officially end slavery. Simultaneously, he attempts to bring about a peaceful end to the Civil War. These two goals appear to be mutually exclusive, a point established in an early scene where Lincoln confers with his most trusted political advisor, Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn). The film is so focused on the political process -- the horse-trading, deception, and arm-twisting Lincoln and Seward perform to achieve their goals -- that it feels not unlike an extended episode of The West Wing. However, instead of Aaron Sorkin's ping-pong, Mamet-inspired patter, we are treated to Tony Kushner's almost Shakespearean dialogue. The characters speak in a formal yet often flowery vernacular that's invested with both remarkable imagery and witty insults, and Spielberg has assembled a flawless cast who each bring out the music in Kushner's words. First among equals is, of course, two-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor of uncommon skill who manages to evoke Lincoln in all his honor and glory without once making him appear like a wax figure. This is a living and breathing human being who yearns to do the right thing in every instance, but is ripped to shreds emotionally when he has to deal with his emotionally high-strung, grieving wife (Sally Field). To rally people to his cause at different points during the film, Lincoln delivers a Christlike parable about some historical event or an anecdote from his own life, and Day-Lewis spins these yarns with such folksy authority that the audience in the theater is sucked into his rhetorical magic just as inevitably as the characters he's speaking to onscreen. We hang on his every word, just as we do a commanding performance in live theater. The whole ensemble is arguably one of the greatest casts ever assembled. Tommy Lee Jones gets some of the best lines as an irascible congressman who has fought his whole career to give slaves both freedom and full citizenship -- it's the kind of performance that gets people nominated for Supporting Actor awards. James Spader steals all of his scenes playing a libidinous, extroverted political middleman responsible, along with a pair of cronies played by Tim Blake Nelson and John Hawkes, for making the deals with politicians Lincoln can't be seen doing himself. Each time any of the actors open their mouths, you marvel at how right they are for the part, and how gloriously they put across Kushner's lines. In large part because the dialogue is both so good and so plentiful, Lincoln is closer to a play than a movie, and this doesn't always work to Spielberg's strengths as a director. With words this beautiful, very little is needed to augment them, so most attempts to underscore the dialogue with say a symbolic thunder clap or overdone strings feel like a mistake, though he never smothers the movie in melodrama. The single biggest flaw is that they don't stick the landing. There's a superb shot that the movie should end on, but the film goes on for another ten minutes giving us scenes that we thankfully don't expect, yet, at the same time, we don't really want. Spielberg and longtime cinematographer Janusz Kaminski light the performers in ways that accentuate their earnestness, underscoring the filmmaker's obvious reverence for the material without turning these legendary figures into simple symbols of good. All of the characters remain troubled, three-dimensional people, and that turns out to be the best element of the movie, because Kushner manages to invest us in these people and their desires. What could easily have become a dry civics lesson is in fact loaded with laughs, inspiring triumphs, a subtle but undeniable awe for one of the country's defining figures, and some of the richest language you can find at the movies. It's a superior achievement for Kushner, and makes for one of the best of Spielberg's "serious" movies.