April Morning (1988)

★ 5.8 1h 40m 15 votes IMDb

A teenager grows up during the onset of the American revolution.

April Morning

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Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones as Moses Cooper Age 79 · San Saba, Texas, USA Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and film director. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samu...
Robert Urich
Robert Urich as Joseph Simmons Died 2002 · Toronto, Ohio Robert Urich (December 19, 1946 – April 16, 2002) was an American actor. He played the starring role in the television series Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988) and Vega$ (1978–1981). He also appeared in o...
Chad Lowe
Chad Lowe as Adam Cooper Age 58 · Dayton - Ohio - USA ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles Conrad "Chad" Lowe (born January 15, 1968) is an American actor. He is the younger brother of fellow actor Rob Lowe. He won an Emmy Award for his suppo...
Susan Blakely
Susan Blakely as Sarah Cooper Age 77 · Frankfurt, Germany From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Susan Blakely is an American film actress and actress, who has mainly played supporting roles. She is best known for her leading role in the 1976 miniseries Ric...
Meredith Salenger
Meredith Salenger as Ruth Simmons Age 56 · Malibu, California, USA Meredith Dawn Salenger (born March 14, 1970) is an American actress. Her credits include the 1985 film The Journey of Natty Gann, as the title character, and the 1989 teen comedy Dream a Little Dream....
Rip Torn
Rip Torn as Solomon Chandler Died 2019 · Temple, Texas, USA Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. (February 6, 1931 – July 9, 2019) was an American actor whose career spanned more than 60 years. He was best known for his roles as Zed in the Men in Black franchise (1997-2...

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Wuchak 7/10 Oct 07, 2025
**_The day the American Revolution started_**

This covers the events of April 18-19, 1775, with Paul Revere’s ride and the ensuing Battles of Lexington and Concord.

The Lexington engagement took place about an hour before sunrise and was really just a deadly skirmish. The strength of the Lexington militiamen was 77 men whereas the British regulars (the “redcoats”) was about 400 by the time they marched the 12.5 miles from Boston. Eight militiamen died in the clash whereupon the arrogant British troops moved on to Concord, which was 6.5 miles west, to search for stashes of colonial weapons. Failing to find them, they were attacked by accumulating militiamen firing from behind trees and structures, which forced redcoats into a humbling retreat to Boston. The Americans won with only 95 casualties as opposed to 273 casualties on the other side.

Being a television production, this is a minimalistic portrayal with a very low-key first half that establishes the main characters and their situation. The film brings the viewer into the midst of the happenings by focusing on an almost 16-yeas old boy (Chad Lowe), his dad & mother (Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Blakely), as well as his girlfriend (Meredith Salenger) and a couple of other militiamen (Robert Urich and Rip Torn).

As long as you don’t expect the blockbuster polish and dynamic depiction of of Mel Gibson’s “The Patriot,” this gives you a frontline visual on the day the American Revolution began. It works as a quick, unassuming history lesson.

It runs 1 hour, 31 minutes, and was shot in Québec, Québec, Canada.

GRADE: B-/B

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