'Saving Lincoln' Coming to DVD/BD June 18th

Sometimes I take a gander at a movie and before I do much with it, I hit up IMDb and see what the user ratings are.  If there are fewer than a few hundred users who have stepped up to rate the movie, like in this case, I look at other sources.

What confuses me is that over on Rotten Tomatoes, Saving Lincoln got itself a 27% rating from 15 reviews.  But the audience rating conflicts highly with the critics score.  What's new?

The audience score for the movie is at 69%.

The synopsis for the movie says,

Based on the true story of Abraham Lincoln (Tom Amandes) and his close friend, Ward Hill Lamon (Lea Coco), Saving Lincoln combines elements of theater and cinema to create a new visual world within vintage Civil War photographs. When the first assassination attempt occurs on the way to Washington in 1861, banjo-playing, pistol-wielding Lamon appoints himself Lincoln's bodyguard. From this unique perspective, Lamon witnesses every aspect of Lincoln's fiery trial as Commander-in-Chief, soothes his friend's tormented soul, and saves him from repeated attempts on his life. Lamon is away on a mission when Lincoln is killed, yet it is Lamon who redefines that tragic event in a surprising and uplifting manner. Saving Lincoln has been called "a new and different kind of cinematic experience…truly fascinating" (Film Journal International), as well as "brave, incisive, brilliant and entirely factual" (Harold Holzer, Lincoln author and authority).

Aside from Amandes (TV: "Everwood") and Coco (J. Edgar), the cast includes Penelope Ann Miller (The Artist) as Mary Todd Lincoln, Bruce Davison (X-Men¸TV’s “Last Resort”) as William H. Seward, Josh Stamberg (TV’s “Drop Dead Diva”) Creed Bratton (TV’s “The Office”) and Saidah Arikka Ekulona (Righteous Kill).

There is also something unique that caught my eye about the productio... the filming technique called CineCollage.

CineCollage makes use of actual Civil War photos (from the Library of Congress) for the green screen backdrops in every scene.

Saving Lincoln on DVD JUNE 18^th!

SPECIAL FEATURES:

-       Interactive Civil War Photo Gallery
-       The Making of a CineCollage Film
-       Acting in a Green Screen World
-       The Music of Saving Lincoln
-       Director/Writers Audio Commentary
-       Theatrical Trailer
-       English Captions for the Hearing Impaired

Format: NTSC, 16:9 Widesrceen

Language: English, 5.1 Digital Sound

Official Site: http://www.savinglincoln.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SavingLincoln

Additional SAVING LINCOLN products including the Blu-Ray and Illustrated Screenplay please head to: http://shop.savinglincoln.com/

-Bruce