Feb 25th
Lincoln** (12A)
(Odeon Colchester)                                       

(US 2012)
Twentieth Century Fox/Dreamworks/Reliance Entertainment/Participant Media. 150m. ws

The final months of Abraham Lincoln in his campaign to pass the Thirteenth Amendment outlawing slavery.
Downplayed, liberal-minded Spielberg epic with a fine sense of period and perhaps the authentic voice (so it is claimed) of Abraham Lincoln, successfully capturing him as a family man and providing some interesting depiction of political machination, although lacking some outside perspective including the defeated South and, interestingly, Lincoln's assassination.

Written by: Tony Kushner, based on the book "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg.
Director: Steven Spielberg.
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Tommy Lee Jones, James Spader, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Hal Holbrook, Jon Hawkes, Jackie Earle Haley, Jared Harris (as General Grant), Lukas Haas.
Photography: Janusz Kaminski.
Music: John Williams.
Production Design: Rick Carter.