New Movie

[L Verge]

Anybody know anything about this new CW movie opening next week?

About Copperhead
Copperhead is unlike any Civil War movie to date. It is a film of the war at home – of a family ripped apart by war, of fathers set against sons and daughters, of a community driven to an appalling act of vengeance against a man who insists on exercising his right to free speech during wartime. A story of the violent passions and burning feuds that set ablaze the home front during the Civil War, Copperhead the Movie is also a timeless and deeply moving examination of the price of dissent, the place of the individual amidst the hysteria of wartime, and the terrible price of war – a cost measured not in dollars but in fractured families, broken loves, and men dead before their time.

Based on the extraordinary novel by Harold Frederic, who witnessed these conflicts firsthand as a small child, Copperhead tells the story of Abner Beech, a stubborn and righteous farmer of Upstate New York, who defies his neighbors and his government in the bloody and contentious autumn of 1862. The great American critic Edmund Wilson praised Frederic’s creation as a brave and singular book that “differs fundamentally from any other Civil War fiction.”

Copperhead is the great untold Civil War story. Far from the Virginia battlefields whose names etch our history, the war of Copperhead visits the devastation and unimaginable loss of a civil war upon a family and a community whose strength and very existence are tested by fire, rope, knife, and betrayal. This is the Civil War come home.

With Copperhead, director Ron Maxwell, who with Gettysburg and Gods and Generals established himself as our foremost cinematic interpreter of the American Civil War, takes on the War from a stunning and unexpected and richly, unforgettably humanist angle.

- See more at: http://www.copperheadthemovie.com/about-...inmkG.dpuf

[BettyO]

This looks really good....haven't seen any of the "rushes" or trailers yet.... I want to see this one!

Thanks, Laurie!

[Gene C]

Sounds similar to Jimmy Stewart in "Shenandoah"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jNk3YdA5_k and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAys8ZClANk
(have your kleenex handy)

[L Verge]

I was thinking the exact same thing, Gene, only from a Northern perspective.

BTW: Our programming theme next year at Surratt House is on the Home Front During the Civil War. For the past few years, we have been including a movie night under the theme Hollywood and the Civil War. Our first movie in 2011 was Gone With The Wind. Last year we showed Red Badge of Courage, and this year will feature Glory. In 2014, we will be showing Shenandoah.

[LincolnMan]

I'm not what the website was trying to convey with the pictures of the two Fondas-both seated in similar positions. Was it to show that both actors are in Civil War related films? I'm not quite getting it.