I can take or leave this movie, but what brought me to add a comment was how this is a perfect example of Hollywood's drive to "humanize" our founding fathers. Biography after biography of George Washington has driven home the integrity of his personal comportment and indicates he would *never* utter the vulgarities emanating from Kelsey Grammar's mouth. One biographer (I think it was Richard Brookheiser) said that would ask visitors to Mount Vernon to leave at the drop of a single profane word from their lips. I've enjoyed Kelsey Grammar in the past and he'll always be Frasier to me as he will to most others. But taking him seriously as George Washington, to whom faith, prayer, and Godly discipline in daily personal conduct were bedrock traits is impossible.
Review of Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor
Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor
(2003 TV Movie)
Who was that? It certainly wasn't Washington.
24 July 2005