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Release Date:
16 March 2008 (USA) more
Tagline:
Join or Die more
Plot:
A miniseries on the life of John Adams and the first 50 years of the United States.
Awards:
Won 4 Golden Globes. Another 32 wins & 19 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(135 articles)
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User Reviews:
Magnificent in every detail more (72 total)

Cast

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Paul Giamatti ... John Adams (7 episodes, 2008)

Laura Linney ... Abigail Adams (7 episodes, 2008)
John Dossett ... Benjamin Rush (6 episodes, 2008)
Stephen Dillane ... Thomas Jefferson (6 episodes, 2008)

Sarah Polley ... Nabby Adams (4 episodes, 2008)
Samuel Barnett ... Thomas Adams (4 episodes, 2008)

David Morse ... George Washington (4 episodes, 2008)
Andrew Scott ... Colonel William Smith (4 episodes, 2008)

Danny Huston ... Samuel Adams (3 episodes, 2008)
Ebon Moss-Bachrach ... John Quincy Adams (3 episodes, 2008)

Steven Hinkle ... Young John Quincy Adams (3 episodes, 2008)

Madeline Taylor ... Young Nabby Adams (3 episodes, 2008)

Mamie Gummer ... Sally Smith Adams (3 episodes, 2008)
Kevin Trainor ... Charles Adams (3 episodes, 2008)

Tom Wilkinson ... Benjamin Franklin (3 episodes, 2008)

Michael Hall D'Addario ... Young Charles Adams (3 episodes, 2008)

Landon Ashworth ... The Senator (3 episodes, 2008)
Dan Taylour ... Merchant / ... (3 episodes, 2008)

Rufus Sewell ... Alexander Hamilton (2 episodes, 2008)

Justin Theroux ... John Hancock (2 episodes, 2008)
Judith Magre ... Madame Helvétius (2 episodes, 2008)

Brennan Brown ... Robert Treat Paine (2 episodes, 2008)
Tom Beckett ... Elbridge Gerry (2 episodes, 2008)
Jules Croiset ... Second Dutch Banker (2 episodes, 2008)
Sieger Sloot ... Dutch Man (2 episodes, 2008)
Lex van Delden ... First Dutch Banker (2 episodes, 2008)
Zeljko Ivanek ... John Dickinson (2 episodes, 2008)

John Keating ... Timothy Pickering (2 episodes, 2008)
Thomas Langston ... Young Thomas Adams (2 episodes, 2008)

Timmy Sherrill ... Attorney General Charles Lee / ... (2 episodes, 2008)

Juan Eloy Carrera ... Bostonian Townsperson (2 episodes, 2008)
Robert Rice (2 episodes, 2008)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Untitled John Adams Miniseries (USA) (working title)
John Adams (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
John Adams (Hungary) [hu]
John Adams (Brazil) [pt]
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501 min
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1.78 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Crew vehicle passes didn't mention John Adams; they said "BRAINTREE". more
Goofs:
Factual errors: When the militia man is telling Abigail Adams about the "Battle of Bunker Hill" and when John Adams is telling of General Warren's death, both say that the battle took place on Bunker Hill. The militia man CERTAINLY would have known that the battle actually took place on Breed's Hill (adjoining Bunker Hill), and John Adams probably would have known the difference as well. However, this is a common error, not only perpetrated by books, but by spoken word recordings as well. more
Quotes:
John Hancock: [reluctantly] God save the King.
Samuel Adams: God damn the King!
Benjamin Franklin: [happily] God bless the King. Who else could've brought such a spirit of unity to the Congress?
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51 out of 57 people found the following review useful.
Magnificent in every detail, 29 March 2008
10/10
Author: bobwen from NYC, United States

The attention to detail in this mini-series only caps off the brilliant writing and acting, top to bottom. So refreshing to see this attention in simple things like seeing the cannons fire in the distance, THEN hearing the blasts several seconds later, as it is in real life... ditto thunder and lightning... brilliant. Even more importantly, seeing how our founding fathers (and mothers!) laid it all out on the line, risking life and property for ideas and ideals. This series should be mandatory watching in high school history classes from now on. It should also be mandatory viewing for our Congress, if only to remind them of what guts, personal conviction, and personal sacrifice in service to your COUNTRY is. Maybe today's leaders wouldn't be so quick to dismantle the Constitution if they see accurately what our ancestors went through to secure it in the first place. HBO, Tom Hanks, et al ... you are to be genuinely congratulated! And special thanks to David McCullough for the book, and the writers for their screenplays.

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