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Abandoned by Jefferson for retaining Washington's cabinet, President Adams holds firm on keeping the nation out of war, despite French aggression and pro-war sentiment among his advisors. Abigail urges him to sign the controversial Alien and Sedition Acts, seeing them as a way to preserve domestic security. Meanwhile, Adams faces a crisis at home when he disowns his alcoholic son Charles; when Charles later dies, Abigail pleads to Adams to make peace with their son's memory, but Adams refuses, and a disappointed Abigail returns to Braintree. The president is vindicated in the French crisis after the new Secretary of State, John Marshall, brokers a peace with Napoleon I, but Adams fails to win a second term as Jefferson claims the presidency in a run-off with Aaron Burr. Drained by politics and family tragedy, Adams exits the new capital, Washington City, having only recently moved in to the still-unfinished White House.
Original Release
04/13/2008
US Release
04/13/2008
Cast
Name | Character |
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Paul Giamatti | John Adams |
Laura Linney | Abigail Adams |
Stephen Dillane | Thomas Jefferson |
Rufus Sewell | Alexander Hamilton |
Sarah Polley | Abigail Adams Smith |
John Dossett | Benjamin Rush |
Samuel Barnett | Thomas Adams |
Kevin Trainor | Charles Adams |
Mamie Gummer | Sally Smith Adams |
John Curran | White House Construction Foreman |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Paul Giamatti | John Adams |
Laura Linney | Abigail Adams |
Stephen Dillane | Thomas Jefferson |
Rufus Sewell | Alexander Hamilton |
Sarah Polley | Abigail Adams Smith |
John Dossett | Benjamin Rush |
Samuel Barnett | Thomas Adams |
Kevin Trainor | Charles Adams |
Mamie Gummer | Sally Smith Adams |
John Curran | White House Construction Foreman |
Lucas N. Hall | Continental Army Officer |
Charisse Matthews | White House Servant |
Jason Butler Harner | Oliver Wolcott, Jr. |
Natalie Christina | French Elite Woman |
Jack Gwaltney | John Marshall |
John Keating | Timothy Pickering |
David Morse | George Washington |
Zak Orth | James McHenry |
Andrew Scott | Colonel William Smith |
Kevyn Settle | Sons of Liberty Horseman |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Kirk Ellis | Executive Producer |
Frank Doelger | Executive Producer |
Gary Goetzman | Executive Producer |
Tom Hanks | Executive Producer |
David Coatsworth | Producer |
Amy McKenzie | Producer |
Andrew McKenzie | Producer |
Kirk Saduski | Producer |
Steve Shareshian | Producer |
Richard Sharkey | Producer |
Greg Spence | Producer |
Graham Yost | Producer |