Trumbo (2015)
Country: US
Technical: col 124m
Director: Jay Roach
Cast: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Elle Fanning, John Goodman, Helen Mirren, Michael Stuhlbarg
Synopsis:
During the 1950s the House Un-American Activities Committee investigates former Communists in Hollywood, one of whom, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, provides the focus for resistance to the Congressional hearings. Prison sentences and blacklisting follow, at great cost to the personal lives of those concerned.
Review:
A magisterial performance stands at the heart of this otherwise merely honourable tribute to the many who were wronged by the HUAC, and in turn by Hollywood studios. Cranston brings out the eloquent, mischievous and uncompromising facets of Trumbo's character to life brilliantly, and it is a superb script. The recreations of a Hollywood long gone are, by and large, routinely impeccable, but this particular familial trauma is brought vividly to life, and it was a shame that the Oscar that year had to go to Leonardo DiCaprio.
Country: US
Technical: col 124m
Director: Jay Roach
Cast: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Elle Fanning, John Goodman, Helen Mirren, Michael Stuhlbarg
Synopsis:
During the 1950s the House Un-American Activities Committee investigates former Communists in Hollywood, one of whom, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, provides the focus for resistance to the Congressional hearings. Prison sentences and blacklisting follow, at great cost to the personal lives of those concerned.
Review:
A magisterial performance stands at the heart of this otherwise merely honourable tribute to the many who were wronged by the HUAC, and in turn by Hollywood studios. Cranston brings out the eloquent, mischievous and uncompromising facets of Trumbo's character to life brilliantly, and it is a superb script. The recreations of a Hollywood long gone are, by and large, routinely impeccable, but this particular familial trauma is brought vividly to life, and it was a shame that the Oscar that year had to go to Leonardo DiCaprio.
Country: US
Technical: col 124m
Director: Jay Roach
Cast: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Elle Fanning, John Goodman, Helen Mirren, Michael Stuhlbarg
Synopsis:
During the 1950s the House Un-American Activities Committee investigates former Communists in Hollywood, one of whom, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, provides the focus for resistance to the Congressional hearings. Prison sentences and blacklisting follow, at great cost to the personal lives of those concerned.
Review:
A magisterial performance stands at the heart of this otherwise merely honourable tribute to the many who were wronged by the HUAC, and in turn by Hollywood studios. Cranston brings out the eloquent, mischievous and uncompromising facets of Trumbo's character to life brilliantly, and it is a superb script. The recreations of a Hollywood long gone are, by and large, routinely impeccable, but this particular familial trauma is brought vividly to life, and it was a shame that the Oscar that year had to go to Leonardo DiCaprio.