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      Saving Lincoln

      Released Feb 15, 2013 1 hr. 38 min. History Drama List
      27% 15 Reviews Tomatometer 67% 250+ Ratings Audience Score U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon (Lea Coco) foils repeated assassination attempts while serving as President Lincoln's (Tom Amandes) self-appointed bodyguard. Read More Read Less

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      steve d Interesting story but really amateurish. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member This was historically accurate and although it doesn't pack the punches of Ken Burn's Civil War, it's absolutely worth watching. The civil war was more complicated than most people realize and Abraham Lincoln was a literal target for assassination. This movie focuses on what Lamon's involvement was to foil attempts against President Lincoln and also includes vignettes of his conversations with Mary, George B McClellan, and others which help show some of the other issues occurring during his presidency. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the better Lincoln movies showing how he dealt with the horrors of war Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member I liked the production style of the movie and learn some stuff as well. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Good movie, great acting. i love it that it revealed which party stood up for civil rights. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member I felt moments of sheer brilliance and laughter juxtaposed with sharing Abe, Mary, and Hill's emotions as if they were my own. Your endeavors are acts of sheer genius as all of the great discoveries the historical world!!! Your story has rekindled the notion that mature men and women can befriend each other without stooping to the low levels as to employ sexual tension to lure the audience into believing the story. You have performed countless tasks seemingly impossible in this modern age of film production and have advanced the notion of moral priority in a film portraying the lives of historical figures of premiere importance and the inter-relationships that they shared. Mr. Litvak, you are the Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, of theatre and film. Weaving historical images, stories, feelings, and emotions of bygone eras and then reincarnating them so that our society will see what history would have long forgotten if not resurrected by you and your surrounding cadre' of collective genius. The casting and their performance could not have been better...at times, the film absorbed one into the seen as if you were truly listening and watching the true historical figures. Congratulations on a refreshing theatrical endeavor and not succumbing to the accepted morays of the film industry. Dr. Charles Wright, MD, MS Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Mark Olsen Los Angeles Times The film feels like an animated Wikipedia page, just sort of running through the greatest hits of Lincoln's life in office - the Emancipation Proclamation! Gettysburg! The Theater! - without any real insight. Rated: 2/5 Feb 20, 2013 Full Review Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine Under even the best of circumstances, Saving Lincoln would have to inevitably face the scrutiny of potential redundancy. Rated: 1.5/4 Feb 15, 2013 Full Review Neil Genzlinger New York Times Note to filmmakers: Just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean you should do it. Rated: 2/5 Feb 14, 2013 Full Review Brent Simon Shockya.com An ancillary curio about the man and his struggles, at least for history buffs, and an unusual exception to an old screenwriting rule -- a movie whose framing device benefits it much more than its actual execution. Rated: C Apr 18, 2013 Full Review Nora Lee Mandel Film-Forward.com The innovative look. . .of thrusting actors directly into archival photographs, . .the primary reason to see the film, is particularly striking. . .as visual authenticity. Rated: 6/10 Feb 25, 2013 Full Review Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru A bold visual feat undermined by an overstuffed, cold and shallow screenplay and awkward theatrical performances. Rated: 5.45/10 Feb 16, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon (Lea Coco) foils repeated assassination attempts while serving as President Lincoln's (Tom Amandes) self-appointed bodyguard.
      Director
      Salvador Litvak
      Screenwriter
      Salvador Litvak, Nina Davidovich Litvak
      Distributor
      Pictures From the Fringe
      Production Co
      Lane Street Pictures
      Genre
      History, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Feb 15, 2013, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 8, 2017
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