Young Washington Delivers Action, Adventure, and Ambition
Ambition runs through the new film Young Washington, both in the story and in the project itself. Making a film of a nation's foundational hero, especially one that focuses on his formative failures, can be a thankless task. Young George's ambition finds its match in Angel Studio's most audacious project yet, and both deliver on their promise.
Young Washington begins with the loss of Washington's father and the mentorship of his much-older half-brother, Lawrence (John Foss), who has to remind George of his station on several occasions. His mother Mary (Mary Louise Parker) tries to keep him on the farm and to settle for colonial gentryhood. George, however, wants more from life - adventure, honor, and access to the nobility in the colonies. By the time he reaches adulthood, George (William Franklyn-Miller) begins to realize the cost and folly of some of his ambitions, acquiring humility and character along the way but never seeing himself as lesser than others.
Photo Credit: Eugene Delgaudio dressed up as George Washington