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Gettysburg
MEANRANK
71/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 30, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 89. Critics average 56, everyone else 75.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.
Details
- Director
- Ronald F. Maxwell
- Writer
- Ronald F. Maxwell
- Studio
- Esparza / Katz Productions, Turner Pictures, Mace Neufeld Productions, Robert Rehme Productions
- Released
- 8 October 1993
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 254 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $20.0M
- Box office
- $10.8M
- Awards
- 1 win, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →1 win from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 1994 | Worst Fake Beards | Gettysburg ( New Line Cinema ) | Winner |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1993 | Best Supporting Actor | Jeff Daniels | Nominee |
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×| Worst Fake Beards | Gettysburg ( New Line Cinema ) | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actor | Jeff Daniels | Nominee |