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I remember the days depicted in today's movie.

Trumbo (2015)

Unfortunately, the film is heavy footed plodding from one outrage to another.

Dalton Trumbo was a screen writer of some renown. But he got his tie caught in the wringer of what was basically a Congressional stunt. The hunt for "red" in the motion picture industry.

Since this politicization of a big media business caught everyone by surprise, no one acts with much dignity when the time comes for them to "testify and name names" before the Committee of a guy who became a convict himself for his political shenanigans.

The movie is good in that it tells about a scary and scandalous time. But it is too big, too broad and too polemical to hold even my attention. I had to FF to get through it and that is not a good thing. It reduces my rating to a 2 out of Netflix5.

There are a lot of stars in this film. Most do some creditable impressions of stars from that time. Since I time bracket it all I can say with a doubt that they would have done better to forgo that and just have some good actors saying some good lines and not do the "impressions".

And so on.

I wish it was better. Bryan Cranston turns in a good performance as Trumbo. Other actors needed a restraining hand to keep their inner ham inside.

Labels: films