Trumbo 2007

7.4/10


NETFLIX Rating : 3.6


IMDB Rating : 7.5


FD Smart Rating : 7.4


Synopsis : After failing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted in Hollywood.


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Christmas Island , Cook Islands , Fiji , India , Kiribati , Nauru , New Caledonia , Niue , Norfolk Island , Papua New Guinea , Samoa , Solomon Islands , Tokelau , Tonga , Tuvalu , Vanuatu

Directors:

Peter Askin

Creators:

Christopher Trumbo

Languages:

English , English [Original]

Subtitles:

English

Genres:

Documentary, Biography

Release Date:

2007

Run Time:

1h31m

Maturity Rating:

Sexual references

Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. Trumbo was one of several writers, directors, and actors who invoked the First Amendment in refusing to answer questions under oath. They were blacklisted and imprisoned. We follow Trumbo to prison, to exile in Mexico with his family, to poverty, to the public shunning of his children, to his writing under others' names, and to an eventual but incomplete vindication. Actors read his letters; his children and friends remember and comment. Archive photos, newsreels and interviews add texture.