Lincoln

Name: Lincoln
Released: 2012-11-9
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Lincoln

PG-13
2h 30m
2012

89%

age 13+

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From DreamWorks Pictures and legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg comes an epic film that chronicles the untold story of the final four months of the man regarded as America's greatest President. Featuring an all star ensemble cast led by Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role, this movie explores Lincoln not just as the commander-in-chief of a country in chaos, but also as a man with moral courage and hope, a progressive thinker who challenged the status quo. Staring an all-star cast including Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones and James Spader.

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Producer:

Cast:

Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones

Extras

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The Journey To Lincoln

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

89%

Critics Consensus: Daniel Day-Lewis characteristically delivers in this witty, dignified portrait that immerses the audience in its world and entertains even as it informs.

Reviews

Behind The Lens

Debbie Lynn Elias

There is a reason the eternal flame of Lincoln burns so brightly to this day. Thanks to Steven Spi...

Lincoln returns dignity to politics.

The recurrent themes that crop up again and again in the film are those of sagacity, maturity and...

October 31, 2019

FULL REVIEW

The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)

Matthew Lucas

A haunting performance that is one of Lewis' finest in a career filled with towering achievements,...

Lincoln's flaws don't keep it from succeeding on several levels: as a showcase for Daniel Day-Lewi...

February 26, 2019

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 13+

Common Sense Says

Outstanding drama about revered leader's political genius.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Steven Spielberg's Lincoln isn't a biographical chronicle of Abraham Lincoln's (Daniel Day-Lewis) life in office but rather a political drama about the passing of the 13th Amendment and the end of the Civil War. The most sensitive issues in the movie are its depiction of war (severed limbs and bloody battlefields filled with dead soldiers are seen) and occasional strong language, including many era-accurate (but hard to hear today) racial epithets. But overall, the violence is much tamer than in war movies like Saving Private Ryan or Glory, and Lincoln is an educational, entertaining drama that even some mature 5th graders might be ready to handle, if they watch with their parents. (That said, it does move somewhat slowly, so kids hooked on fast-paced entertainment may not be interested.)