Miniseries Review: 'John Adams'
John Adams (2008) Written by: Kirk Ellis & Michelle Ashford Based on: John Adams, by David McCullough Directed by: Tom Hooper Starring: Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Stephen Dillane, David Morse, Danny Huston, Sarah Polley, Tom Wilkinson, Rufus Sewell, Justin Theroux, Guy Henry On June 16, 2009, HBO Home Entertainment released the DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD) home media editions of its Emmy-winning miniseries John Adams. Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman ( Band of Brothers ), this HBO Films/Playtone production is an adaptation of historian David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of one of America's most influential yet least understood Founding Fathers and the second President of the United States. Written by Kirk Ellis ( Sons of Liberty, Into the West ) and Michelle Ashford ( Masters of Sex, The Pacific ) and directed by Tom Hooper ( The King's Speech, Elizabeth I ), John Adams originally aired on HBO between March 16 and April 20, 2008, and...