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24 August 1997 (USA) moreAwards:
Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 15 wins & 20 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Chicagoan Sinise to Star in 'CSI: New York' (From Studio Briefing. 18 March 2004)
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(From Studio Briefing. 14 September 1998)
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Letting Loose The Dark Forces moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)Gary Sinise | ... | George C. Wallace | |
Mare Winningham | ... | Lurleen Wallace | |
Clarence Williams III | ... | Archie | |
Joe Don Baker | ... | Big Jim Folsom | |
Angelina Jolie | ... | Cornelia Wallace | |
Terry Kinney | ... | Billy Watson | |
William Sanderson | ... | T.Y. Odum | |
Mark Rolston | ... | Ricky Brickle | |
Tracy Fraim | ... | Gerald Wallace | |
Skipp Sudduth | ... | Al Lingo (as Skip Sudduth) | |
Ron Perkins | ... | Nicholas Katzenbach | |
Mark Valley | ... | Bobby Kennedy | |
Charles Bartlett | ... | Demonstrator | |
Terrence Beasor | ... | Demonstrator | |
Chuck A. Bernard | ... | Convention Speaker |
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The night that Gary Sinise won the Emmy award for his portrayal of George Wallace, the real George Wallace died of a heart attack. moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Archie lowers Wallace into the tub for bathing, his severely atrophied legs are made quite obvious, but in the next scene when he is sitting in his wheelchair wearing a robe while watching the kids play through the window, his calf muscles are showing and his legs appear normal in size. moreFAQ
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Gary Sinise delivers a superb performance in the biographical television film George Wallace. I well remember Wallace from back in the sixties and Sinise is so good in the part you think you're seeing home movies of Wallace, albeit a slightly skinnier version.
No southern politician since Huey Long had the impact of Wallace on the national scene. He was a product of the white backlash to the Brown vs. Board of Education School integration decision of the Supreme Court. Wallace, previously a moderate who lost a gubernatorial primary in 1958, courted the die-hard segregationist vote in 1962 and won the first of several terms as Governor of Alabama. It was a platform that he used to rattle both the Democratic and Republican parties for several years.
He unleashed a lot of dark and evil forces beyond even what he knew and maybe he never realized the full extent of them even after the attempted assassination of him at a presidential campaign rally in Laurel, Maryland in 1972. But he had to come to grips with pain and suffering as he never did before and maybe he caught a bit of empathy for those of the disenfranchised he'd demagogued against previously.
It is a fact that the former poster boy for race segregation got a large amount of black support in his final race for Governor in 1986.
Sinise is aided and abetted by good performances by Clarence Williams, III who serves as a kind of Greek Chorus, a fictional black servant at the Governor's mansion who is Wallace's sounding board as neither his two wives became.
Mare Winningham who is the small town girl Lurleen who he married and who just wanted a normal home life. She became part of his ambitions when she was elected Governor herself in a ploy to get around Alabama's term limit law. Winningham is as I remember Lurleen Wallace and conceive of what she was like in her private life.
Angelina Jolie in a break out role for her plays Wallace's second wife Cornelia who was the niece of former Governor Jim Folsom played her ably by Joe Don Baker. After Wallace was shot and paralyzed and lost the control of a number of lower body functions, she tries as best she can to adjust. A whole lot is against it though in both her's and his personalities.
George Wallace is a much better than average made for TV product, it probably should have gotten a theatrical release. It's a portrait of some dark corners of America and shouldn't be missed.