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Director:
John Gray
Writers (WGA):
Jim Bishop (book)
Tim Metcalfe (teleplay) ...
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Release Date:
12 April 1998 (USA) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama | History more
Tagline:
The Murder. The Manhunt. The Events That Stunned A Nation.
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Awards:
Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 2 nominations more
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Cast

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Rob Morrow ... John Wilkes Booth

Lance Henriksen ... President Abraham Lincoln

Donna Murphy ... Mary Todd Lincoln

Jean Louisa Kelly ... Lucy Hale

Wil Wheaton ... Robert Todd Lincoln
Titus Welliver ... Lewis Thornton Paine

Jaimz Woolvett ... David E. Herold

Jeremy Sisto ... Frederick Seward

Kirk B.R. Woller ... George A. Atzerodt (as Kirk B. R. Woller)
John Pleshette ... Secretary of State William Henry Seward

Gregory Itzin ... Mr. Crook

Adam Lamberg ... Thomas 'Tad' Lincoln

John Ashton ... Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant
Eddie Jones ... Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton
Nancy Robinette ... Mary E. Surratt
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA more
Company:
Robert Greenwald Productions more

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Anachronisms: In one scene there is a wallpaper wich features a pattern of cyphers consisting of the letters VRI and a royal crown. The letters stand for "Victoria Regina Imperatrix" wich is Latin for "Victoria Queen Empress". It seems strange that such a royal motif would have been used in the USA. However even if someone would have wanted to decorate their walls with cypher of the british monarch in 1865, it would have been "VR". It was not until 1877 that Queen Victoria was given the title "Empress of India" when India was formally incorporated into the British Empire. more
Quotes:
President Abraham Lincoln: Goodbye Crook!
Crook: You mean goodnight sir?
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Movie Connections:
Remake of "Ford Star Jubilee: The Day Lincoln Was Shot (#1.6)" (1956) more

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Eerily captivating, 14 November 2000
Author: William C. Uchtman (aesgaard41@hotmail.com) from Hendersonville, TN

The only man I ever thought who could give Lincoln justice was Irish born-and-bred Roy Dotrice,but now I have to add Lance Henriksen to the list.I also saw Kris Kristoffersen play the man with the stove pipe hat but that one was made for the whole family. This movie is much more closer to the truth than "The Lincoln Conspiracy" ever was.Booth is much more darker and scarier than I ever remembered and even more forboding when he is trying to romance the ladies.I would hope that every Lincoln afficinado appreciates this movie for its depiction of the darkest day in American history

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