Preview: Lincoln
Year: 2012
Production Country: USA-India
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Featuring: Daniel Day-Lewis / Joseph Gordon-Levitt / John Hawkes / Tommy Lee Jones / Sally Field / James Spader
Distributed by: Twentieth Century Fox
Running time: 150min
Certificate 12A
Presented in 4K digital
Daniel Day-Lewis stars as the American President in Steven Spielberg’s new biopic.
Synopsis
Daniel Day-Lewis in a career-defining role as the American President responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery, Abraham Lincoln. Focusing on the last four months of Lincoln’s life, fighting to end the Civil War and pass the Thirteenth Amendment through to his assassination, Lincoln is an epic biopic from Steven Spielberg, with sprawling battlefield scenes and heated negotiations with Lincoln’s own cabinet, all set to a moving John Williams score.
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