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Category: 30
All Genres: Animation, Short
Release Year: 1993
Country: USA
Runtime: 30
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Richard Rich
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Taglines:It's never too late for a second chance
Writing by: Brian Nissen - writer
Produced by: Jared F. Brown - producer
Seldon Young - executive producer
Cast: Diane Lane - Adrienne Willis
Richard Gere - Dr. Paul Flanner
Christopher Meloni - Jack Willis
Viola Davis - Jean
Becky Ann Baker - Dot
Scott Glenn - Robert Torrelson
Linda Molloy - Jill Torrelson
Pablo Schreiber - Charlie Torrelson
Mae Whitman - Amanda Willis
Charlie Tahan - Danny Willis
Carolyn McCormick - Jenny Flanner
Music: Jeanine Tesori
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: The newly elected president, Abraham Lincoln, and his family are leaving their hometown for the journey to Washington...
Plot: The newly elected president, Abraham Lincoln, and his family are leaving their hometown for the journey to Washington. He bids his friends and neighbors farewell. In their life together we can see that Lincoln gains strength from his family, especially from his sons Tad and Willie. Abraham Lincoln needs all the strength he can find. His great cause-the American Union-is split asunder by civil war. But Mr. Lincoln is no ordinary man. With complete dedication to his cause, he leads his nation through its darkest hour, finding strength and solace where he can. His son Willie reads a poem to the President's cabinet, a poem in honor of a soldier who has died for the Union cause. It is clear that the poem is a reflection of his father's own deep commitment to preserving the Union. Abraham Lincoln struggles with the idea of abolishing slavery. His advisors ask, "How can you fight a war without attacking what started it?" But Lincoln is cautious. He knows that freeing the slaves is not without political and military risk. He is torn by a personal tragedy. His favorite son, Willie, is deathly ill. Despite the efforts of the doctors, Willie dies. Lincoln mourns his loss, believing, "He was too good for this earth." Reflecting on the sorrow and shortness of life, Lincoln comes to know what he must do. He issues the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves. The war drags on and on-hundreds of thousands die. Lincoln is invited to Pennsylvania to help consecrate a military cemetery at Gettysburg. Lincoln's short speech is a meditation on dedication to democratic principles which nobly expresses the reasons for all the bloody and costly struggle of ending civil war. There is celebration in the land when the war finally ends. But Lincoln is not to live to oversee the reunion of the nation he loved. Killed by an assassin's bullet, Lincoln becomes yet one more martyr to the cause he served so well. His was a life of courage, faith and supreme dedication.
Movie Quotes: Dr. Paul Flanner: We all make choices, Adrienne. You chose that life, you chose that man. Do you even remember who you really are anymore?
Adrienne Willis: Just stop it.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Names appear on-screen beginning with a single glowing letter--almost always an "O" or another vowel when there are no "O"s--then the rest of the name and credit spreads out from that letter. (Perhaps not coincidentally, the entire regular cast, plus both creators, have an "O" in his/her name.)
Goofs: We know about 6 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: The neon OPEN sign in the window of the store Caroline buys baby supplies is too new, not of the period the movie first starts out in.
Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Animation, Short
Release Year: 1993
Country: USA
Runtime: 30
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Richard Rich
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Taglines:
Writing by: Brian Nissen - writer
Produced by: Jared F. Brown - producer
Seldon Young - executive producer
Cast: Diane Lane - Adrienne Willis
Richard Gere - Dr. Paul Flanner
Christopher Meloni - Jack Willis
Viola Davis - Jean
Becky Ann Baker - Dot
Scott Glenn - Robert Torrelson
Linda Molloy - Jill Torrelson
Pablo Schreiber - Charlie Torrelson
Mae Whitman - Amanda Willis
Charlie Tahan - Danny Willis
Carolyn McCormick - Jenny Flanner
Music: Jeanine Tesori
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: The newly elected president, Abraham Lincoln, and his family are leaving their hometown for the journey to Washington...
Plot: The newly elected president, Abraham Lincoln, and his family are leaving their hometown for the journey to Washington. He bids his friends and neighbors farewell. In their life together we can see that Lincoln gains strength from his family, especially from his sons Tad and Willie. Abraham Lincoln needs all the strength he can find. His great cause-the American Union-is split asunder by civil war. But Mr. Lincoln is no ordinary man. With complete dedication to his cause, he leads his nation through its darkest hour, finding strength and solace where he can. His son Willie reads a poem to the President's cabinet, a poem in honor of a soldier who has died for the Union cause. It is clear that the poem is a reflection of his father's own deep commitment to preserving the Union. Abraham Lincoln struggles with the idea of abolishing slavery. His advisors ask, "How can you fight a war without attacking what started it?" But Lincoln is cautious. He knows that freeing the slaves is not without political and military risk. He is torn by a personal tragedy. His favorite son, Willie, is deathly ill. Despite the efforts of the doctors, Willie dies. Lincoln mourns his loss, believing, "He was too good for this earth." Reflecting on the sorrow and shortness of life, Lincoln comes to know what he must do. He issues the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves. The war drags on and on-hundreds of thousands die. Lincoln is invited to Pennsylvania to help consecrate a military cemetery at Gettysburg. Lincoln's short speech is a meditation on dedication to democratic principles which nobly expresses the reasons for all the bloody and costly struggle of ending civil war. There is celebration in the land when the war finally ends. But Lincoln is not to live to oversee the reunion of the nation he loved. Killed by an assassin's bullet, Lincoln becomes yet one more martyr to the cause he served so well. His was a life of courage, faith and supreme dedication.
Movie Quotes: Dr. Paul Flanner: We all make choices, Adrienne. You chose that life, you chose that man. Do you even remember who you really are anymore?
Adrienne Willis: Just stop it.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Names appear on-screen beginning with a single glowing letter--almost always an "O" or another vowel when there are no "O"s--then the rest of the name and credit spreads out from that letter. (Perhaps not coincidentally, the entire regular cast, plus both creators, have an "O" in his/her name.)
Goofs: We know about 6 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: The neon OPEN sign in the window of the store Caroline buys baby supplies is too new, not of the period the movie first starts out in.
Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- This film was shot with the anamorphic lenses that Vittorio Storaro brought to the Philippines for Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Winner of the Premio Thalassa 2007
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