The multi-talented Alan Alda directed Sweet Liberty from his original screenplay. In this comedy, Alda plays an historian who is plunged into a summer of madness when a film company comes to town to make a movie of his best selling book about the American Revolution. Michael Caine and Michelle Pfeiffer portray the stars of the film-within-a-film, and Lillian Gish plays the professor's mother. Sweet Liberty captures the fine boundary between cinema and reality and the excitement of working on that edge. (Along these lines, Alda hired 300 members of the group known as the Brigade of the American Revolution--amateur historians who devote their weekends to costumed reenactments of Revolutionary War battles--to fight the climactic battle of the film-within-a-film.) Alan Alda, best known for his starring and creative role in television's M*A*S*H, also wrote and directed the critically acclaimed 1981 film The Four Seasons, and is the recipient of numerous awards as a motion picture and television actor, writer and director.