Directed by:
Peter AskinScreenplay:
Christopher TrumboComposer:
Robert MillerCast:
Dalton Trumbo (a.f.), Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Paul Giamatti, Danny Glover, Nathan Lane, Josh Lucas, Liam Neeson (more)VOD (1)
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Trumbo documents the rise of Dalton's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation from being among the Hollywood Ten blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, Dalton wrote under various pseudonyms, even winning two Academy Awards. Viewed by many as a moral and just man, Dalton Trumbo stood for the American value and right of free expression. (official distributor synopsis)
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The film captures the impact of the social "witch hunt" in the USA in the 40s and 50s, which was able to do more than just turn the uncomfortable individuals' professional careers and personal lives upside down. Trumbo (and not only him) had undeniable writing talent but due to contemporary paranoia, he was prevented from freely creating and even signing his own works, and yet, like the majority of other similarly persecuted individuals, he did not morally submit. The documentary is strongly enhanced by the recitations of Trumbo's authentic letters and works, which add depth to the film as a whole.
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