HBO Films Presents ALL THE WAY
Bryan Cranston is LBJ
Anthony Mackie is MLK
Melissa Leo and Frank Langella
New York, N.Y. -- "Until
justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until
opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation
will be a proclamation, but not a fact." -- Lyndon B. Johnson. HBO
Home Entertainment proudly presents the September 6th DVD with Digital
HD and Blu-ray with Digital HD release of the critically acclaimed All the Way. Following its critically acclaimed, award-winning Broadway run, All the Way
(starring four-time Emmy® winner Bryan Cranston who reprises his Tony
Award-winning role, is a riveting behind-the-scenes look at President
Lyndon B. Johnson's (LBJ) tumultuous first year in office in the wake of
President Kennedy's assassination. Bonus material on both sets a Historical Featurette and Bryan Cranston's Transformative Video becoming LBJ.
Hailed as "dramatically dazzling" (Baltimore Sun) and "powerful"
(Chicago Sun-Times), All the Way
was nominated for eight 2016 Emmy Awards® including Outstanding
Television Movie, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
(Bryan Cranston, who reprises his Tony® Award winning role). The film
follows LBJ during his early administration, as he stakes his presidency
on what would be an historic, unprecedented Civil Rights Act. Johnson
finds himself caught between the moral imperative of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. and the expectations of the southern Democratic Party leaders
who brought Johnson to power. As King battles to press Johnson while
controlling more radical elements of the Civil Rights movement, Johnson
navigates the bill through Congress, winning a landslide victory against
Barry Goldwater, but causing the South to defect from the Democratic
Party.
Co-starring
with Cranston are Anthony Mackie (Martin Luther King, Jr.), Melissa Leo
(Lady Bird Johnson), Bradley Whitford (Hubert Humphrey) and Frank
Langella (Sen. Richard Russell). Additional cast members include Joe
Morton (Roy Wilkins), Stephen Root (J. Edgar Hoover), Marque Richardson
(Bob Moses), Aisha Hinds (Fanny Lou Hamer), Todd Weeks (Walter Jenkins),
Mo McRae (Stokely Carmichael) and Spencer Garrett (Walter Reuther).
The film was directed by Jay Roach (Emmy® winner for HBO's Game Change and Recount)
from a screenplay by Robert Schenkkan (Pulitzer Prize winner for "The
Kentucky Cycle"; two-time Emmy® nominee and Writers Guild Award winner
for HBO's The Pacific), who has adapted his Tony Award-winning play of the same name.
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