Unnecessary War
Unnecessary War
2008
Drama, History
TV Episode
After Adams becomes President continues Washington's policy of neutrality between England and France despite opposition inside his own cabinet. (imdb)
Directed by:
Tom Hooper
15 total credits
Tom Hooper was educated at one of England's most prestigious schools, Westminster. His first film, Runaway Dog, was made when he was 13 years old and shot on a Clockwork 16mm Bolex camera, using 100 feet of film. At age 18, he wrote, directed and produced the short film Painted Faces (1992), which premiered at the London Film Festival; it was released theatrically and later shown on Channel 4. He studied English at England's top university, Oxford.
Writers:
David McCullough
12 total credits
Credits include: John Adams, The Civil War, Truman, Brooklyn Bridge and California Typewriter
9 total credits
Credits include: John Adams, Anne Frank: The Whole Story, Nightmare at Noon, Hired to Kill and The Beach Boys: An American Family
Starring:
Laura Linney
67 total credits
Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress of film, television, and theatre. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for the Academy Award three times and once for the BAFTA Award. She has also been nominated three times for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play.She received a Golden Globe award for her role in The Big C...(wikipedia)
102 total credits
Born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut by his father A. Bartlett Giamatti, who became President at Yale University, and mother Toni Marilyn, an English teacher. Origianlly a comedian, Giamatti went on to play small parts in several movies, such as the Negotiator and saving Private Ryan before taking the lead in such films as American splendor and, the critically acclaimed, Sideways. Giamatti is a commited Athiest although married to Jewish wife Elizabeth with their son Samual.
79 total credits
Rufus Frederik Sewell is an English actor. In film, he has appeared in The Woodlanders, Dangerous Beauty, Dark City, A Knight's Tale, The Illusionist, Tristan and Isolde, and Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence. On television, he starred in the 2010 mini-series The Pillars of the Earth. Earlier he played the hero, Will Ladislaw, in the BBC adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch. In 2003, he appeared in the lead role in Charles II: The Power and The Passion...(Wikipedia)
47 total credits
Sarah Polley is an actress and director renowned in her native Canada for her political activism. Blessed with an extremely expressive face that enables directors to minimize dialog due to her uncanny ability to suggest a character's thoughts, Polley has become a favorite of critics for her sensitive portraits of wounded and conflicted young women in independent films...(imdb)
65 total credits
Credits include: King Arthur, Spy Game, The Hours, Perfect Sense and Goal!
13 total credits
Credits include: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The History Boys, The Lady in the Van, Lee and Twenty Twelve
31 total credits
Credits include: Side Effects, The End of the Tour, Taking Woodstock, The Ward and John Adams
9 total credits
Credits include: The Killer Inside Me, Stone, Tracks, We Don't Live Here Anymore and Chappaquiddick
Cast & Info
Directed by:
Tom Hooper 15 total credits
Tom Hooper was educated at one of England's most prestigious schools, Westminster. His first film, Runaway Dog, was made when he was 13 years old and shot on a Clockwork 16mm Bolex camera, using 100 feet of film. At age 18, he wrote, directed and produced the short film Painted Faces (1992), which premiered at the London Film Festival; it was released theatrically and later shown on Channel 4. He studied English at England's top university, Oxford.
Writers:
David McCullough 12 total credits
Credits include: John Adams, The Civil War, Truman, Brooklyn Bridge and California Typewriter
9 total credits
Credits include: John Adams, Anne Frank: The Whole Story, Nightmare at Noon, Hired to Kill and The Beach Boys: An American Family
Starring:
Laura Linney 67 total credits
Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress of film, television, and theatre. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for the Academy Award three times and once for the BAFTA Award. She has also been nominated three times for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play.She received a Golden Globe award for her role in The Big C...(wikipedia)
102 total credits
Born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut by his father A. Bartlett Giamatti, who became President at Yale University, and mother Toni Marilyn, an English teacher. Origianlly a comedian, Giamatti went on to play small parts in several movies, such as the Negotiator and saving Private Ryan before taking the lead in such films as American splendor and, the critically acclaimed, Sideways. Giamatti is a commited Athiest although married to Jewish wife Elizabeth with their son Samual.
79 total credits
Rufus Frederik Sewell is an English actor. In film, he has appeared in The Woodlanders, Dangerous Beauty, Dark City, A Knight's Tale, The Illusionist, Tristan and Isolde, and Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence. On television, he starred in the 2010 mini-series The Pillars of the Earth. Earlier he played the hero, Will Ladislaw, in the BBC adaptation of George Eliot's Middlemarch. In 2003, he appeared in the lead role in Charles II: The Power and The Passion...(Wikipedia)
47 total credits
Sarah Polley is an actress and director renowned in her native Canada for her political activism. Blessed with an extremely expressive face that enables directors to minimize dialog due to her uncanny ability to suggest a character's thoughts, Polley has become a favorite of critics for her sensitive portraits of wounded and conflicted young women in independent films...(imdb)
65 total credits
Credits include: King Arthur, Spy Game, The Hours, Perfect Sense and Goal!
13 total credits
Credits include: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The History Boys, The Lady in the Van, Lee and Twenty Twelve
31 total credits
Credits include: Side Effects, The End of the Tour, Taking Woodstock, The Ward and John Adams
9 total credits
Credits include: The Killer Inside Me, Stone, Tracks, We Don't Live Here Anymore and Chappaquiddick
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