Gettysburg: Directed by Ron Maxwell. With Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Stephen Lang, Richard Jordan. In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War.
their loves and fears. Personalities are sketched, weaknesses revealed, rivalries established that will all be settled under fire. Then we get the action scenes. “Gettysburg” avoids all of those war movie cliches. This is a film, pure and simple, about the Battle...
And the impression that I got from these scenes at the end of the first day was that both sides had victories during the day, but neither side really considered it to be over yet. They knew the next day was going to bring a lot more fighting. Was the outcome of the battle at the ...
Although, having watched the movie for the first time and seeing its reputation online, this is also a case of “Wait, that was a movie?” William Friedkin was a master filmmaker and although most of his stone-cold classics happened before 1990, he proved he still had plenty in the tank...