Gods and Generals (Director's Cut) (Blu-ray) PG-13
The nations heart was touched by...
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 4 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 15, 2011
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jeff Daniels, Stephen Lang & Robert Duvall | |
Performer: | Kevin Conway, C. Thomas Howell & Mira Sorvino | |
Directed by | Ronald F. Maxwell | |
Screenwriting by | Ronald F. Maxwell | |
Composition by | John Frizzell & Randy Edelman | |
Produced by | Ronald F. Maxwell | |
Director of Photography: | Kees Von Oostrom | |
Executive Production by | Robert Katz, R.E. Turner & Moctesuma Esparza |
Entertainment Reviews:
Solid, stirring stuff...
Uncut
Rating: C- --
Then there is 'Gods and Generals,' cut from the same production cloth as 'Gettysburg' but a film of very loose ends.
Kansas City Kansan
Rating: 3/5 --
Meticulous Civil War story runs a little long.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 2/5 --
The big battles impress, but become somewhat samey. Part Three is threatened.
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Empire Magazine
The procession of monotonous, oddly gore-free battles breaks frequently for bloated speechifying.
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Time Out
...[With] rich and full-bodied widescreen cinematography...
Variety
A labour of love with special interest to history buffs, this epic film is extraordinary in many ways.
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Urban Cinefile
Product Description:
This epic film from writer-director Ron Maxwell chronicles the early events of the American Civil War. It's a prequel to his earlier GETTYSBURG, with some of the same cast, and is part of a planned trilogy. Stephen Lang plays Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, the famous (and deeply religious) Confederate general who, along with fellow General Robert E. Lee (Robert Duvall), must weigh the mighty consequences of his actions, as each battle costs the lives of thousands of men. Over on the Union side there's Jeff Daniels as Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, who, like Jackson and Lee, is fond of making long, poetic speeches to his troops. Beginning with the start of the war and ending with Jackson's death, the film chronicles the three main battles leading up to Gettysburg, using their actual locations and thousands of actual Civil War re-enactors as extras. Maxwell pays careful attention to authentic period detail as he chronicles the minutiae of the generals' domestic lives in the intervals between the harrowing battle scenes. While a little on the long side, the end result should serve as an invaluable document for history buffs. Mogul Ted Turner was an executive producer and appears in a small role.