The Day Lincoln Was Shot

TV-PG

1998

1h 36m

History

Drama

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Frustrated actor John Wilkes Booth (Rob Morrow) decides to assassinate Abraham Lincoln (Lance Henriksen), 16th president of the United States.

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Gripping and moving despite its TV limitations, 'Day Lincoln was Shot' is top of the line period entertainment. Partly due to a tight script, partly due to fairly good production values that recreate Civil War America, and in part because of two solid turns from Morrow and Henriksen as Lincoln and Booth.

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02/01/23

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It's an interesting story and the acting was OK but the script falls flat in adaptation.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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I saw it a loonnggg time ago, on TNT, or whatever network produced it, and I thought it was very good. I need to see it again. I am also quite proud of myself bc it is bc of my suggestion to Flixter that they add this movie to their site that they have added this movie to their site! That is the.... seventh movie that I have requested & that they've added bc of my requests! I'm still waiting for Flixter to add the feature, that I suggested, where they add a link to each webpage for each movie, that was added bc of a request by a Flixter user, & the link would lead to that users profile. AND, a list on that users profile that would have the movies added to the site bc of requests made by that user, or a link to a webpage where that list can be found! They acted like they couldn't be bothered when I initially made this request, maybe one day they will pull their head from their assess, who knows!!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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John Gray

Director

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

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Synopsis

Frustrated actor John Wilkes Booth (Rob Morrow) decides to assassinate Abraham Lincoln (Lance Henriksen), 16th president of the United States.

Director: John Gray
Producer: Robert Greenwald
Production Co: Robert Greenwald Productions, TNT
Rating: TV-PG (L|V)
Genre: History, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 12, 2017
Runtime: 1h 36m

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