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 es...
Released:
2012
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
149 mins