This week we enter the world of Lincoln, an almost-perfect 2012 movie that features just about every “hey it’s that guy” brilliant character actor and one unforgettable, magical performance as honest Abe by Daniel Day-Lewis. We don’t have a lot to complain about outside of top hats, weird facial hair, and “states’ rights,” so we spend a lot of time praising the casual brilliance of Tony Kushner’s writing and some guy named Steven Spielberg who seems to be going places as a director.

No way around it: This movie is flawless.

Some other questions: How badly does Sara want to go to an underground dogfight with Tim Blake Nelson? In the 1850s, what was the correct number of children to have in order to be survived by at least one of them? How good at this was Abraham Lincoln? How unfair is it that Tommy Lee Jones had to share oxygen for weeks on end with Robert Wuhl while filming Cobb (the subject of Biopic: A Podcast Story’s 4th of July 2024 episode,) when he is such a good actor? Is anyone better than Sally Field?

Also very important: We play a game, “Who said it: Scholastic Book Fair Poster or Abraham Lincoln,” celebrating the most wrongly-cited president of all time.

Lincoln stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, and also Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Strathairn, James Spader, Walton Goggins, John Hawkes, Jared Harris, Jackie Earle Haley, Joseph Cross, Michael Stuhlbarg, Tim Blake Nelson, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Hal Holbrook, Gloria Ruben, Adam Driver, Lee Pace, Gulliver McGrath, David Costabile, Colman Domingo, and pretty much every other awesome person you can think of, and was directed by Stephen Spielberg and written by Tony Kushner.

Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it.

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