The Crossing [VHS]

The Crossing [VHS]
by Robert Harmon

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Actor: Jeff Daniels, John Henry Canavan, Roger Rees, Sebastian Roch?, Steven McCarthy
Director: Robert Harmon
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 100 minutes
Release Date: 2000-02-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: A & E Home Video
Studio: A & E Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of The Crossing [VHS]

Movie Review: George Washington
Summary: 4 Stars

Fairly well done, except for the rather rough language that the real Mr. Washington would never have used.
For a more realistic look at of our first president ,I recommend the movie John Adams.
Mr. Washington was a true gentleman.

Movie Review: Very well done -- splendid historical drama
Summary: 5 Stars

As our schools manage to do a poorer and poorer job of educating our youth about America, movies like this one can help teach our kids about American history. George Washington was one of the giants of history, and this film is a dramatization of one of his many great achievements -- the Battle of Trenton. Leading a small, discouraged, and cold and hungry American militia Army, Washington took on the finest soldiers in the world and won a great victory. Had he not done so, the American revolutionary cause might well have failed. History correctly records that it was George Washington whose inspired leadership won the Battle of Trenton.

Jeff Daniels does splendidly as George Washington, and the supporting caste is also quite good. The film moves at a brisk pace, never drags, and engages the viewer's interest at all times. Highly recommended.

Movie Review: The Crossing
Summary: 5 Stars

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Movie Review: Decent drama, however...
Summary: 2 Stars

The Crossing is a decent drama and is entertaining, which is why I gave it two stars instead of one. The depiction of Washington, however, is not true to his character. I imagine the script writers may have put in the sequence where "Washington" mocks an overweight soldier as a device to show that the famous general had a gift for bonding with his soldiers, but the real man would simply never have resorted to such low humor to do so. None of my research shows that Washington was ever less than quietly dignified, and it was his integrity, courage and strength which was an inspiration to the men who fought the Revolutionary War. Because of this example, and others inaccuracies which are sprinkled throughout the movie, I could not use it in my history classroom as I had planned to do when I bought the DVD.

I do recommend this DVD as entertainment. Good costuming and fair acting.

Movie Review: Average Program
Summary: 3 Stars

Although slickly done and entertaining and somewhat informative, I found the film as a whole to be somewhat average.

The film is fairly educational and follows history pretty well, but it lacked somewhat on entertainment value.

Every Revolutuionary War buff should see this film and I'm sure they will enjoy it.

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Summary of The Crossing [VHS]

Jeff Daniels (Pleasantville, Terms of Endearment) stars as the American patriot who led a ragtag band of farmers and shopkeepers to victory over the world's greatest military power in this sweeping A&E original production. December 17, 1776. Hounded by superior British forces, his army decimated by disease, desertion and lack of funds, General George Washington faces the unthinkable: he is losing the war for American independence. A week later, on Christmas Eve, Washington will embark on one of the most profound gambles in military history. Staking everything on a fantastically risky surprise attack against a garrison of battle-hardened Hessian mercenaries, Washington sets out across the ice-choked Delaware River -- into a desperate confrontation in which his career, his life and the American Revolution itself all hang in the balance concluding into one of the greatest victories of all time.

Every American knows that George Washington crossed the icy Delaware River in the War of Independence, if only from Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's famous 1851 painting. The made-for-cable-TV historical drama The Crossing, scripted by Howard Fast from his novel, corrects at least one piece of historical invention--Washington did not stand and pose for the occasion of Leutze's portrait--but, more importantly, it frames the event in the real-life drama that made it a decisive moment of American history. Jeff Daniels makes a fine General George Washington, the quiet, dignified, and increasingly desperate leader of the volunteer Continental Army. By December 1776, six months after the Declaration of Independence was signed, the tired and hungry army had retreated to the far banks of the Delaware River, a mere fraction of the original 20,000-strong force. Knowing that defeat means the end of the revolution, Washington takes the offensive in a dangerous surprise attack that turns the tide of the war. Like the sprawling Civil War epic Gettysburg, The Crossing takes one incident of the Revolutionary War and digs into the whys and wherefores that make it vital history. It lacks scope and spectacle--major battles appear more like modest skirmishes--and lapses into patriotic fervor at times, but it brims with rich historical detail and comes alive with the stories of officers, soldiers, and a very human George Washington. --Sean Axmaker

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