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10/18/08
Trumbo (2008)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:41
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Trumbo celebrates the life and work of blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo with measures of humor and sadness.
Theatrical Release:Jun 27, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $28,125
Synopsis: This documentary focuses on the Oscar-winning mind behind ROMAN HOLIDAY and THE BRAVE ONE. TRUMBO centers on Dalton Trumbo, a screenwriter and member of the Hollywood 10 who vaulted from the A-list... [More]
Starring: Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas, Paul Giamatti
Director: Peter Askin
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04/23/09
Myth and piety are the film’s guiding principles -- documenting truth isn’t.
06/25/08
This biography is celebratory to a fault. There is scant context about the history and political climate that led to the blacklist.
08/22/08
Balancing the political and the personal is a smart idea, though the resulting togglethon ends up being the uneasiest of marriages.
06/26/08
What could have been a human- and Hollywood-interest film turns out to be a not very successful experiment.
06/26/08
Trumbo's vivid archival footage and interviews share less-than-equal time, though, with an all-star cast ... taking turns reading from the writer's letters and speeches.
06/27/08
What kind of international revolutionary whines about his family being made unwelcome among the tykes of the bourgeoisie?
06/27/08
Top Critic...the film's inability to put a new spin on well-covered material... means the definitive work about this fascinating figure is yet to come.
06/23/08
Trumbo is hurt by an unwillingness to actually explore Trumbo's own politics and delve into his actual beliefs about communism, Stalin or Marxist ideology.
10/18/08
unimaginative ... rendering a film that should have been impassioned and full of life and humor into something static and dull.
06/26/08
The film only comes alive with archival footage of the HUAC hearings and interviews with Trumbo himself. When the letter-readers come on, it slows to a snails-pace.
06/27/08
The best way to learn about Trumbo is through his writing, which is spirited, dry, and utterly convinced of its truth
06/27/08
Trumbo is well worth seeing for what it tells us about the age in which this irrepressible individualist lived, loved, suffered and finally triumphed.
07/09/08
Top Critic... a beautifully directed and passionate homage to the dignity of one man against the indignity of the times.
08/19/08
Like the great artist he is Trumbo's work speaks as loudly today as it did 50 years ago. Perhaps we should all listen.
09/13/09
Trumbo is most focused when it lets the man and his peers testify directly.
06/22/08
A ousing documentary as ornery, orotund and captivating as its subject.
10/18/08
Top CriticTrumbo was initiated by two of Trumbo's children, but their attempt to personalize the film isn't quite personal enough.
08/22/08
Blacklisted screenwriter and freedom-fighter Dalton Trumbo is revealed in this touching documentary that utilizes talking-head interviews along with Trumbo's letters to flesh out the man responsible for such film classics as "Johnny Got His Gun," "Spartac
06/23/08
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