"All forward thrust and hot-damn urgency...A brilliant, brawling epic.
Screenwriter Tony Kushner blows the dust off history by investing it
with flesh, blood, and churning purpose. . . . A great American movie."
-Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Lincoln is a rough and noble democratic masterpiece. And the genius
of Lincoln, finally, lies in its vision of politics as a noble,
sometimes clumsy dialectic of the exalted and the mundane...And Mr.
Kushner, whose love of passionate, exhaustive disputation is unmatched
in the modern theater, fills nearly every scene with wonderful,
maddening talk. Go see this movie." -A.O. Scott, New York Times
"A lyrical, ingeniously structured screenplay. Lincoln is one of the
most authentic biographical dramas I've ever seen...grand and immersive.
It plugs us into the final months of Lincoln's presidency with a purity
that makes us feel transported as if by time machine." -Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly
A decade-long collaboration between three-time Academy Award(R) winner
Steven Spielberg and Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner, Lincoln is a
revealing drama that focuses on the 16th President's tumultuous final
months in office. Having just won re-election in a country divided,
Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the
country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce
determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will
change the fate of America, and generations, to come. Containing eight
pages of color photos from the film and inspired by Doris Kearns
Goodwin's critically acclaimed Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of
Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln is now a major motion picture by DreamWorks
starring two-time Academy Award(R) winner Daniel Day-Lewis.
Tony Kushner's plays include Angels in America, Parts One and Two;
A Bright Room Called Day; Slavs!; Homebody/Kabul; Caroline, or
Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; and The Intelligent
Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the
Scriptures. He wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols's film of Angels
in America and for Steven Spielberg's Munich. Kushner is the
recipient of a Pultizer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, two
Evening Standard Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy Award, and two Oscar
nominations, among other honors. In 2008 he was the first recipient of
the Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.
