Movie
Newsies
Overview
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.
Details
- Release date
- 1992-04-10
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Walt Disney Pictures, Touchwood Pacific Partners 1
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Christian Bale as Jack 'Cowboy' Kelly
- Bill Pullman as Bryan Denton
- Ann-Margret as Medda Larkson
- Robert Duvall as Joseph Pulitzer
- David Moscow as David Jacobs
- Luke Edwards as Les Jacobs
- Max Casella as Racetrack Higgins
- Gabriel Damon as Spot Conlon
- Marty Belafsky as Crutchy
- Aaron Lohr as Mush
- Dee Caspary as Snitch
- Shon Greenblatt as Oscar Delancey
Crew
- Kenny Ortega - Director
- Noni White - Writer
- Bob Tzudiker - Writer
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