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7.2The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Cast
- Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Virgil Brooks
- Louis C.K. as Arlen Hird
- David James Elliott as John Wayne
- Elle Fanning as Niki Trumbo
- John Goodman as Frank King
Themes
- parent child relationship
- movie business
- screenwriter
- biography
- hollywood
- writer
- communism
- blacklist
- mccarthyism
- 1940s
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Jay Roach
- Written by
- John McNamara
- Based on
- Dalton Trumbo , by Bruce Cook
- Produced by
- Michael London Janice Williams Shivani Rawat Monica Levinson Nimitt Mankad John McNamara Kevin Kelly Brown
- Starring
- Bryan Cranston Diane Lane Helen Mirren Louis C.K. Elle Fanning John Goodman Michael Stuhlbarg
- Cinematography
- Jim Denault
- Edited by
- Alan Baumgarten
- Music by
- Theodore Shapiro
- Production companies
- ShivHans Pictures Groundswell Productions Everyman Pictures
- Distributed by
- Bleecker Street (United States) Entertainment One Features (International)
- Release dates
- September 12, 2015 ( 2015-09-12 ) ( TIFF ) November 6, 2015 ( 2015-11-06 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 124 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $10 million
- Box office
- $13.3 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 124
- FilmAffinity ID
- 609114
- Official website
- www.trumbomovie.com
- Image
- Trumbo film logo.png
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- publication date
- 2016-03-10
- title
- Trumbo
- review score
- 60/100
- Commons category
- Trumbo (film)
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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 the life of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, and is based on the 1977 biography Dalton Trumbo by Bruce Alexander Cook.
The film was shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2015, and was released on November 6, 2015, by Bleecker Street. The film received generally positive reviews, with Bryan Cranston earning wide recognition for his performance, including the Best Actor nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Critics' Choice Movie Award.