
November 22, 1963. President John F. Kennedy has just been assassinated and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is now President. One of his first acts as President is to reaffirm the US government's intention to pass the Civil Rights Act. This Act was drafted while JFK was in office and gives people of all races the same rights, including voting rights, access to education and access to public facilities. However, he faces strong opposition to the bill, especially from within h... (Full plot summary below)
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November 22, 1963. President John F. Kennedy has just been assassinated and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is now President. One of his first acts as President is to reaffirm the US government's intention to pass the Civil Rights Act. This Act was drafted while JFK was in office and gives people of all races the same rights, including voting rights, access to education and access to public facilities. However, he faces strong opposition to the bill, especially from within his own party. He will have to use all his political will and cunning to get it through.
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| CNN.comBrian LowryCranston's performance embodies all of Johnson's contradictions... In short order, he gets beyond the accent and remarkable make-up (the resemblance is uncanny) to inhabit the role. |
| Solzy at the MoviesDanielle SolzmanHere's to clearing space for another Emmy trophy because the moment this movie was placed on the HBO schedule, he won the award. |
| Salon.comMatthew RozsaBeneath the melodrama of the maneuvering for power, there are millions of ordinary human beings who depend on the right outcome. |
| Entertainment WeeklyJeff JensenComplexity flows from Cranston. He can't replicate LBJ's girth or age, but his ferocious performance -- aided by seamless makeup and helmer Jay Roach's framing -- is fully convincing. |
| Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertIt feels like you're witnessing a miracle, at times, watching Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson in HBO's All the Way, just as it did watching Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln. |
| Uncle BarkyEd BarkThis is a riveting film with a bravura performance by Cranston, who's been the signature television actor of the past decade. All the Way again shows there's nothing he can't do -- with the exception of giving a bad performance. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperDirector Jay Roach turns Robert Schenkkan's acclaimed Broadway play into an engrossing, powerful if slightly overcrowded movie that works as a biopic of LBJ and as a time capsule of a crucial period in the civil rights movement. |
| PopMattersMatthew FayAll the Way is a firm lesson in the price and struggle of progress in American democracy, and the perhaps impossibility of a "nice guy" president. It's also an illustration of both how much and how little has changed in 50 years. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Michael HoganJust as Johnson steamrolled opposition en route to a landslide 1964 election victory, so Cranston's charisma blew everyone else clean off screen. The actor also went "all the way" and it was absorbing to watch. |
| John Hanlon ReviewsJohn HanlonA commendable achievement, this HBO movie powerfully captures President Johnson's ability to bully, cajole and manipulate people to vote the way he wanted. |