Lincoln (2012)
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Critic Consensus: Daniel Day-Lewis characteristically delivers in this witty, dignified portrait that immerses the audience in its world and entertains even as it informs.
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Cast
as Abraham Lincoln
as Mary Todd Lincoln
as William Seward
as Thaddeus Stevens
as Robert Lincoln
as W.N. Bilbo
as Preston Blair
as Robert Latham
as Alexander Stephens
as Edwin Stanton
as Richard Schell
as John Hay
as Ulysses S. Grant
as Fernando Wood
as George Pendleton
as Tad Lincoln
as Elizabeth Keckley
as John Nicolay
as George Yeaman
as Alexander Coffroth
as James Ashley
as Asa Vintner Litton
as Clay Hawkins
as William Hutton
as Private Harold Green
as Corporal Ira Clark
as First White Soldier
as Second White Soldier
as Navy Yard - Shouting Soldier
as Mr. Jolly
as Mrs. Jolly
as Montgomery Blair
as Elizabeth Blair Lee
as White-Minerva--Blair's Servant
as Leo - Blair's Servant
as Gideon Welles
as James Speed
as William Fessenden
as John Usher
as William Dennison
as Senator Bluff Wade
as Schuyler Colfax
as Hiram Price
as White House Doorkeeper - Tom Pendel
as White House Petitioner
as Jacob Graylor
as Edwin LeClerk
as Charles Hanson
as Giles Stuart
as Nelson Merrick
as Homer Benson
as Union Army Officer
as Captain Nathan Saunders - River Queen
as Officer in Peace Commissioners Exchange
as Senator R.M.T. Hunter
as Judge John A. Campbell
as Petersburg Siege Lines - Confederate Officer
as William Slade
as Willie Lincoln
as Senator Charles Sumner
as Major Thompson Eckert
as David
as Gustavus Fox
as Charles Benjamin
as Samuel Beckwith
as Woman Shouter
as Woman Shouter
as Woman Shouter
as Woman Shouter
as Woman Shouter
as Ely Parker
as Union Soldier - Bodyguard
as Military Hospital Doctor
as Wounded Soldier
as Wounded Soldier
as Wounded Soldier
as Wounded Soldier
as Wounded Soldier
as Faust
as Marguerite
as Clerk - Edward McPherson
as Sergeant at Arms
as Aaron Haddam
as Augustus Benjamin
as Arthur Bentleigh
as John Ellis
as Walter Appleton
as Josiah S. "Beanpole" Burton
as Nehemiah Cleary
as Harold Hollister
as House of Representatives - Soldier One
as House of Representatives - Soldier Two
as Sergeant-Grant's HQ
as Corporal-Grant's HQ
as Walter H. Washburn
as Myer Strauss
as Joseph Marstern
as Chilton A. Elliot
as General Robert E. Lee
as House of Representatives Member
as Daniel G. Stuart
as Lydia Smith
as Dr. Joseph K. Barnes
as House of Representatives Member
as House of Representatives Member
as Howard Guillefoyle
as John F. McKenzie
as Andrew E. Finck
as John A. Casson
as Avon Hanready
as Rufus Warren
as House of Representatives-Rebel Shouter
as House of Representatives - Rebel Shouter
as House of Representatives - Rebel Shouter
as House of Representatives - Rebel Shouter
as House of Representatives Member
as House of Representatives Member
as House of Representatives Member
as House of Representatives Member
as House of Representatives
as House of Representatives Member
as House of Representatives Member
as Actor Swordsman
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as Leonard Grover
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Critic Reviews for Lincoln
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It's very good, but that's not the point. It's necessary.
'Lincoln' works as a snapshot of a great man without ever slipping into a portrait of sainthood.
This is movie magic -- history coming to life, before our eyes.
It's the most remarkable movie Steven Spielberg has made in quite a spell, and one of the things that makes it remarkable is how it fulfills those expectations by simultaneously ignoring and transcending them.
Lincoln paints a powerful and compelling portrait of the man who has become an icon. We don't need to see more of his life to understand how rare a figure he was - this window is more than sufficient.
Lincoln offers proof of what magic can happen when an actor falls in love with his character. Because as great as Day-Lewis has been in his many parts, he has never seemed quite so smitten.
Audience Reviews for Lincoln
This pathetic melodrama is always more interesting when focusing on the politics involved but a very schmaltzy "life lesson" whenever Lincoln appears - shown as a wise and mythical storyteller of pure heart (but fine with bribing, of course), never a complex real man.
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Spielberg updates Triumph of the Will for a liberal American agenda; and that's what's wrong with this overview on the efforts to free the American slaves constitutionally. It's unfortunately heavyhanded, more propaganda than cinema. Still, it's a story that needed telling, and right now it's the only game in town. So. It ain't terrible.
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Spielberg and Day-Lewis are masterful in "Lincoln". The material is rife with C-SPAN-like moments rendered quite compelling due to their execution. The plot, while based on a quite complex historical situation, is told simply and efficiently. It is this efficiency that threatens to blunt the film's impact as it sacrifices emotion for historical accuracy. But the high point for "Lincoln" is to witness the master class of acting put on by the committed Daniel Day-Lewis. He makes Lincoln a marvel to behold. And his performance makes going back to 1865 worth it.
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Lincoln Quotes
| Edwin Stanton: | You're going to tell one of your stories! I can't stand to hear another one of your stories! |
| Mary Todd Lincoln: | (To Thaddeus Stevens) You have always taken such a lively, even prosecutorial, interest in my household accounts |
| Mary Todd Lincoln: | You have always taken such a lively, even prosecutorial, interest in my household accounts. |
| Thaddeus Stevens: | Well, that's because you're household accounts have always been so interesting. |
| Abraham Lincoln: | The fate of human decency is in our hands! |
| Thaddeus Stevens: | Trust? Gentlemen, you seem to have forgotten that our chosen career is politics. |
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