"John Adams" (2008) TV mini-series

User Rating:

9.0/10   

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

16 March 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Biography | Drama

Tagline:

Join or Die

Plot:

A miniseries on the life of John Adams and the first 50 years of the United States.

Plot Keywords:

Boston Massachusetts | Pennsylvania | 1790s | England | 1770s

Awards:

Won 13 Primetime Emmys. Another 4 wins & 11 nominations

Cast

Paul Giamatti	...	John Adams (7 episodes, 2008)
Laura Linney	...	Abigail Adams (7 episodes, 2008)
Stephen Dillane	...	Thomas Jefferson (6 episodes, 2008)
John Dossett	...	Benjamin Rush (6 episodes, 2008)
David Morse	...	George Washington (4 episodes, 2008)
Sarah Polley	...	Abigail 'Nabby' Adams (4 episodes, 2008)
Samuel Barnett	...	Thomas Adams (4 episodes, 2008)
Danny Huston	...	Samuel Adams (3 episodes, 2008)
Tom Wilkinson	...	Benjamin Franklin (3 episodes, 2008)
Madeline Taylor	...	Young Nabby Adams (3 episodes, 2008)
Michael Hall D'Addario	...	Young Charles Adams (3 episodes, 2008)
Steven Hinkle	...	Young John Quincy Adams (3 episodes, 2008)
Landon Ashworth	...	The Senator (3 episodes, 2008)
Mamie Gummer	...	Sally Smith Adams (3 episodes, 2008)
Ebon Moss-Bachrach	...	John Quincy Adams (3 episodes, 2008)
Andrew Scott	...	Colonel William Smith (3 episodes, 2008)
Kevin Trainor	...	Charles Adams (3 episodes, 2008)
Justin Theroux	...	John Hancock (2 episodes, 2008)
Brennan Brown	...	Robert Treat Paine (2 episodes, 2008)
Rufus Sewell	...	Alexander Hamilton (2 episodes, 2008)
Judith Magre	...	Madame Helvitius (2 episodes, 2008)
Tom Beckett	...	Elbridge Gerry (2 episodes, 2008)
John Keating	...	Timothy Pickering (2 episodes, 2008)
Thomas Langston	...	Young Thomas Adams (2 episodes, 2008)

Also Known As:

Untitled John Adams Miniseries (USA) (working title)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Budapest, Hungary

Company:

HBO Films

Trivia:

Some of the US military uniform costumes have cast replicas of period "USA" buttons rather than generic plain buttons.

Goofs:

Factual errors: After John Adams loses the 1800 election to Thomas Jefferson he is seen riding down the road from the White House in his carriage. In the distance down what is presumably Pennsylvania Avenue, the entire Capitol building of today is seen under construction. In actuality only a small section of the Capitol had been completed by 1800 and the full building as we know it today was not completed until after the Civil War

Quotes:

John Adams: I have seen a queen of France with 18 million livres of diamonds on her person, but I declare that all the charms of her face and figure added to all the glitter of her jewels did not impress me as much as that little shrub right there. Now your mother always said that I never delighted enough in the mundane, but now I find that if I look at even the smallest thing my imagination begins to roam the milky way!

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards (2008) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Chester

Poignant and gritty!

As fine a political documentary as I have ever seen! Understated, yet amazing in its depth. Even the exhilarating music portends the events to come. A must see for those interested in how the nation they live in came to be. This film may upset some with its frankness of the times in which the characters lived, that said, I applaud that very frankness that allows us to see the people that supported and opposed our becoming a nation. A very "well done" to all those involved with the making of this ode to a time long gone. May we as a nation once more learn the lessons that came to be so well known by the majority of our "Founding Fathers"... AND Mothers.