The 1987 film stars RobertDowney Jr. as collegefreshmanClay, who returns home to reunite with hisdrug-addictedfriendJulian (Andrew McCarthy) andex-girlfriendBlair (Jami Gertz).
The cast, uniformly superb, includes Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, Hal Holbrook as Lincoln adviser Preston Blair, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln, David Strathairn as William Seward and James Spader as political operative W.N.