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2012 · 2h 30m · History · Drama
Rotten Tomatoes 90%Metacritic 87/100
Lincoln is a 2012 American biographical film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln. The film features Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, and Tommy Lee Jones in supporting roles. Its screenplay by Tony Kushner was loosely based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln and covers the final four months of Lincoln's life. The film focuses on President Lincoln's efforts in January 1865 to abolish slavery and involuntary servitude by having the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed by the United States House of Representatives.
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Box office $275M worldwide
Common Sense calls it an outstanding educational drama for age 13+; Movieguide and Dove advise extreme caution due to strong language and violence.[1][2][3]
Family reviews:Plugged In ↗Common Sense Media ↗Dove ↗Movieguide ↗
Steven SpielbergDirector
Adam Driveras Samuel BeckwithAsa-Luke Twocrowas Ely S. Parker
Bill Campas Mr. Jolly
Bill Raymondas Schuyler Colfax
Cast & crew political lean — 11 of 52 researched: 4 left · 0 center · 0 right · 7 no public record. Based only on cited public statements, endorsements, and documented donations.
“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.”
“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.”
“I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. Kentucky gone, we can not hold Missouri, nor, as I think, Maryland.”
“Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy. I am but God's humble instrument; but you may rest assured that as long as I live no one shall put a shackle on your limbs; and you shall have all the rights which God has given to every other free citizen of this republic.”
“I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”
“It's one of those figures that everybody knows who he is, so they think they know who he is, and they don't. They just know a name. They just know an idea. What he was, finally, in my view, was that he created the United States as we know it, he created the nation state as we know it.”
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