The Patriot
Released 2000 by Columbia Pictures, 164 mins., Technicolor 35mm widescreen 1.85:1, digital 5.1 sound, DVD release due Oct. 24, 2000
Production:
- Directed by Roland Emmerich
- Written by Robert Rodat
- Produced by Dean Devlin, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn
- Original music by John Williams
- Cinematography by Caleb Deschanel
- Film Editing by David Brenner
- Production Design by Kirk M. Petruccelli
- Art Direction by Barry Chusid
- Set Decoration by Victor J. Zolfo
- Costume Design by Deborah Lynn Scott
- Sound Editing by Per Hallberg
- Special Effects by Terry Chapman
- Visual Effects by Stuart Robertson
Cast:
- Mel Gibson as Benjamin Martin
- Heath Ledger as Gabriel Martin
- Joely Richardson as Charlotte Selton
- Jason Isaacs as Col. William Tavington
- Chris Cooper as Col. Harry Burwell
- Tchéky Karyo as Jean Villeneuve
- Rene Auberjonois as Reverend Oliver
- Lisa Brenner as Anne Howard
- Tom Wilkinson as General Cornwallis
- Donal Logue as Dan Scott
- Leon Rippy as John Billings
- Adam Baldwin as Capt. Wilkins
- Gregory Smith as Thomas Martin
- Mika Boorem as Margaret Martin
- Skye McCole Bartusiak as Susan Martin
- Trevor Morgan as Nathan Martin
- Joey D. Vieira as Peter Howard
- Jay Arlen Jones as Occam
- Logan Lerman as William Martin
- Michael Neeley as Marquis de Lafayette
- Bryan Chafin as Samuel Martin
- Beatrice Bush as Abigale
Resources:
- Babits, Lawrence Edward. A Devil of a Whipping: the Battle of Cowpens. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 231 p.
- Buchanan, John. The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997. 452 p.
- Higginbotham, Don. War and Society in Revolutionary America: the Wider Dimensions of Conflict. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. 323 p.
- Higginbotham, Don. Daniel Morgan, Revolutionary Rifleman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961. 239 p.
- Kwasny, Mark V. Washington's Partisan War, 1775-1783. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997. 425 p. - see review by Don Higginbotham.
- notes on Francis Marion
- Credits from the IMDB for the title The Patriot
- official website from Sony
History Department | Filmnotes | revised 10/21/02 by Schoenherr
