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Trumbo’s difficulties in surviving as a writer under the blacklist, and his efforts to break it, are the movie’s heart. His valiant wife Cleo (Diane Lane) and three school-age kids must deal with an existence built on a complex set of deceptions, and on the orneriness of a writer who does much of his work in the bathtub swilling booze and ...
Nov 6, 2015, Limited. Release Date (Streaming) May 17, 2016. Box Office (Gross USA) $7.9M. Runtime. 2h 4m. In 1947, successful screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) and other Hollywood ...
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Trumbo. (2015 film) Trumbo is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Jay Roach and written by John McNamara. The film stars Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg as Edward G. Robinson, Dean O'Gorman as Kirk Douglas, and David James Elliott as John Wayne. The film follows ...
Nov 6, 2015 · Another scene, of Trumbo in jail befriending an African American inmate, feels oddly forced, as if it’s ticking off a liberal movie “to do” box. “Trumbo’s” best, most propulsive ...
- Bryan Cranston's screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is all superhero with no cape.
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By Josh Lasser
Updated: Nov 24, 2018 7:03 pm
Posted: Nov 5, 2015 11:00 pm
"Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist party?" The question is an immediate signifier of some of the darkest days in this country's history and the ways in which our government can go too far. And what of those people who refused to answer when the question was asked? Director Jay Roach and star Bryan Cranston attempt to examine one particular case with the new film Trumbo.
Cranston stars in the film as blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, a member of the Hollywood 10 and a definite member of the Communist party. Over the course of Trumbo, Cranston is funny, he is serious, he is smart, and he is almost enough to turn an okay movie into a great one. Almost.
Trumbo opens in 1947, with the Second World War finished and Congress turning its gaze to the perceived Communist threat . The movie then takes viewers through the steps taken to blacklist Trumbo, and others in Hollywood, and how they fought back (or didn't).
It is easy to look back in time and say that HUAC was out of line with their Communist witch hunt, and that the way Dalton Trumbo and others were treated for their political beliefs was equally wrong. What Trumbo fails to do as a movie is to make the actual grave threat posed by the committee -- not just to these people but our whole way of life --...
Nov 5, 2015 · This is the backdrop for the movie, which routinely casts an eye at the big political picture but prefers to narrow in on the more personal story of Trumbo’s struggles at home and at work.
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Dec 11, 2015 · Trumbo, portrayed by Bryan Cranston (“Godzilla,” “Breaking Bad” TV series) was blacklisted as one of the Hollywood 10 and forced to write movie scripts under assumed names such as Robert Rich and Ian McLellan Hunter, two of which, “Roman Holiday” and “The Brave One,” won Oscars for Best Screenplay. In depicting Trumbo’s life during and after the blacklist, we are introduced ...
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