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Overview
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Release Date:
16 March 2008 (USA)
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Plot:
A miniseries on the life of John Adams and the first 50 years of the United States.
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Awards:
Won 4 Golden Globes.
Another 32 wins
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19 nominations
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Poignant and gritty!
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Cast
(Series Cast Summary - 32 of 89)| Paul Giamatti | ... | John Adams (7 episodes, 2008) | |
| Laura Linney | ... | Abigail Adams (7 episodes, 2008) | |
| John Dossett | ... | Benjamin Rush (6 episodes, 2008) | |
| Stephen Dillane | ... | Thomas Jefferson (6 episodes, 2008) | |
| Sarah Polley | ... | Nabby Adams (4 episodes, 2008) | |
| Samuel Barnett | ... | Thomas Adams (4 episodes, 2008) | |
| David Morse | ... | George Washington (4 episodes, 2008) | |
| Andrew Scott | ... | Colonel William Smith (4 episodes, 2008) | |
| Danny Huston | ... | Samuel Adams (3 episodes, 2008) | |
| Ebon Moss-Bachrach | ... | John Quincy Adams (3 episodes, 2008) | |
| Steven Hinkle | ... | Young John Quincy Adams (3 episodes, 2008) | |
| Madeline Taylor | ... | Young Nabby Adams (3 episodes, 2008) | |
| Mamie Gummer | ... | Sally Smith Adams (3 episodes, 2008) | |
| Kevin Trainor | ... | Charles Adams (3 episodes, 2008) | |
| Tom Wilkinson | ... | Benjamin Franklin (3 episodes, 2008) | |
| Michael Hall D'Addario | ... | Young Charles Adams (3 episodes, 2008) | |
| Landon Ashworth | ... | The Senator (3 episodes, 2008) | |
| Dan Taylour | ... | Merchant / ... (3 episodes, 2008) | |
| Rufus Sewell | ... | Alexander Hamilton (2 episodes, 2008) | |
| Justin Theroux | ... | John Hancock (2 episodes, 2008) | |
| Judith Magre | ... | Madame Helvétius (2 episodes, 2008) | |
| Brennan Brown | ... | Robert Treat Paine (2 episodes, 2008) | |
| Tom Beckett | ... | Elbridge Gerry (2 episodes, 2008) | |
| Jules Croiset | ... | Second Dutch Banker (2 episodes, 2008) | |
| Sieger Sloot | ... | Dutch Man (2 episodes, 2008) | |
| Lex van Delden | ... | First Dutch Banker (2 episodes, 2008) | |
| Zeljko Ivanek | ... | John Dickinson (2 episodes, 2008) | |
| John Keating | ... | Timothy Pickering (2 episodes, 2008) | |
| Thomas Langston | ... | Young Thomas Adams (2 episodes, 2008) | |
| Timmy Sherrill | ... | Attorney General Charles Lee / ... (2 episodes, 2008) | |
| Juan Eloy Carrera | ... | Bostonian Townsperson (2 episodes, 2008) | |
| Robert Rice | (2 episodes, 2008) |
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Untitled John Adams Miniseries (USA) (working title)
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501 min
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During the scene in which Nabby has her surgery and John Adams is nervously pacing downstairs, Abigail says to him, "For god's sake, John, sit down." This is a particularly memorable line from the first song in the musical "1776" (music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards and book by Peter Stone), about the writing and signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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Goofs:
Factual errors: After the death of Abigail there is a scene where Dr. Benjamin Rush is consoling John Adams and encourages him to write to Thomas Jefferson. Benjamin Rush died 5 years before Abigail.
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Quotes:
John Adams:
Liberty will reign in America!
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Movie Connections:
Featured in The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2009) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
Chester
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A NOTE ABOUT SPOILERSmore
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As fine a political documentary as I have ever seen! Understated, yet amazing in its depth. Even the exhilarating music portends the events to come. A must see for those interested in how the nation they live in came to be. This film may upset some with its frankness of the times in which the characters lived, that said, I applaud that very frankness that allows us to see the people that supported and opposed our becoming a nation. A very "well done" to all those involved with the making of this ode to a time long gone. May we as a nation once more learn the lessons that came to be so well known by the majority of our "Founding Fathers"... AND Mothers.