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Documentary/Drama
0h 58m
1988
Docudrama about the debate surrounding New York State's ratification of the United States Constitution. Historical figures wear modern dress and use familiar language to help today's audience understand firsthand the...

Docudrama about the debate surrounding New York State's ratification of the United States Constitution. Historical figures wear modern dress and use familiar language to help today's audience understand firsthand the forces that shaped this country two hundred years ago. The argument, characters, passions and debating points are historically accurate, but the language and the medium of the debate is modern in form. Present day newscasters and commentators play themselves, reporting on the events of the 1780s as though they were occurring now.
- DirectorEllen Giffard
- Release3 July 1988
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- Duration0h 58m
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- Productions
Middlemarch Films
Cast

Cokie Roberts
Self - Host

William F. Buckley Jr.
Self

Walter Cronkite
Self

John Chancellor
Self

Phil Donahue
Self

Andrea Mitchell
Self

Al Roker
Self

Forrest Sawyer
Self

Jamey Sheridan
Daniel Shays

Ed Koch
Mayor of New York City, 1788

James Rebhorn
Jesse Woodhull

Mario Cuomo
Self

François Giroday
Alexander Hamilton

Christopher Curry
John Lansing, Jr.

Nesbitt Blaisdell
Gov. George Clinton

Drew Snyder
Demonstrator

John C. Vennema
Robert R. Livingston

E.G. Marshall
Federalist Spokesman

Richard Bright
Donahue Audience Member

William Duell
Donahue Audience Member

MacIntyre Dixon
Donahue Audience Member

Patrick Clear
Donahue Audience Member

Eli Wallach
Anti-Federalist Spokesman

Roberts Blossom
Melancton Smith
