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  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • IDP Distribution
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • IDP Distribution
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary Trumbo is a unique, star-studded film about Oscar-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and his heroic journey from Hollywood royalty to blacklisted writer to Academy Award winner. Set against the backdrop of tremendous political unrest, audience will be given a first, emotional account of how this turmoil affected one of Hollywood’s most p...

Directed By: Peter Askin

Written By: Christopher Trumbo

  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • IDP Distribution
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2008
  • PG-13
  • IDP Distribution
  • 1 h 36 m

Trumbo

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
71
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Trumbo is a unique, star-studded film about Oscar-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and his heroic journey from Hollywood royalty to blacklisted writer to Academy Award winner. Set against the backdrop of tremendous political unrest, audience will be given a first, emotional account of how this turmoil affected one of Hollywood’s most p...

Directed By: Peter Askin

Written By: Christopher Trumbo

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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11% Mixed
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6% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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6% Negative
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91
Trumbo sexes up Trumbo's already dramatic story with a massive infusion of star power.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW
83
Family home movies and photos and archival clips round out the film, which holds its hero-worshiping to fairly tolerable levels.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
80
An invigorating, funny, and moving portrait of a Hollywood hero.
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75
Trumbo, a rousing documentary as ornery, orotund and captivating as its subject (1905-1976), is an anatomy of irony.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
70
This documentary's narrative feels deliberately chronological, as the storyline adheres to the major steps of Trumbo's career. Nonetheless, the film realizes many great moments to make the writer's story – often reduced to a footnote – into an intriguing one.
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70
It will serve as a fine entry point for younger auds interested in learning about the price paid by moviemakers and their families swept up in the 1950s anti-Communist net.
By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW
25
The misleading documentary Trumbo paints a golden nimbus of holiness around the onetime highest-paid screenwriter in Hollywood, Dalton Trumbo, an on-the-record hater of democracy, defender of authoritarian rule and avowed Communist.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Filbert Steps Productions, Reno Productions, Safehouse Pictures
Release Date Jun 27, 2008
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline He was Hollywood's greatest screenwriter. His words still resonate today. He defied a committee, he defied the system. They took his honor. They took his freedom. So Dalton Trumbo went to war. But the ending could only be written by him.
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Awards

National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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