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"Lincoln’s wife, Mary — he calls her Molly, and she is played with just the right tinge of hysteria by Sally Field — is still grieving the loss of another son, Willie, from illness during the first year of the war, and her emotional instability is a constant worry to her husband. These private troubles combine with the strains of a wartime presidency to produce a portrait that is intimate but also decorous, drawn with extraordinary sensitivity and insight and focused, above all, on Lincoln’s character as a politician. This is, in other words, less a biopic than a political thriller, a civics lesson that is energetically staged and alive with moral energy."

NY Times - A President Engaged In A Great Civil War 

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Sally Field, an actress, plays the role of Mary/Molly, the wife of Abraham Lincoln. Field does an amazing job capturing the feeling and emotion Mary felt after losing her son due to a sickness at the beginning of the civil war. She also shows the emotion Mary felt when dealing with anxiety about her husband, Abe. These instances and hardships along with troubles with being the president during the war, capture the "extraordinary sensitivity, insight and focus" that Lincoln had as a political leader. The film, Lincoln, is more of a thriller than it is a biography of Lincoln's life. It is more of a lesson on morals and is brought to life with energy and emotion to show the true meaning of it.