The movie “Lincoln,” with a screenplay written by Tony Kushner, opens in Lake Charles and across the country today, Nov. 16.
Kushner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist who grew up in Lake Charles. The script is based in part on the book “Team of
Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” by presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The film was directed by
Stephen Spielberg.
The book and film are a political biography about Lincoln and his cabinet, Kushner told the American Press in an interview in January.
“Mainly it’s a political biography of
Lincoln and a history of the Lincoln administration,” Kushner said.
Lincoln appointed
to his cabinet three men who opposed him for the nomination —
William Seward, secretary of state; Salmon P. Chase, secretary
of treasury; and Edward Bates, attorney general. All held
divergent political views.
The film will be screened at the Cinemark theater at Prien Lake Mall. Today’s show times are 11:50 a.m. and 3:20, 6:40 and
10:05 p.m.
Daniel Day-Lewis plays Lincoln, and
Sally Fields plays Mary Todd Lincoln. Also in the cast are David
Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
James Spader, Hal Holbrook and Tommy Lee Jones.