Movie
Trumbo
Overview
The 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.
Details
- Release date
- 2015-10-27
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Shivhans Pictures, Groundswell Productions, Inimitable Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
- Diane Lane as Cleo Trumbo
- Michael Stuhlbarg as Edward G. Robinson
- Alan Tudyk as Ian McLellan Hunter
- Helen Mirren as Hedda Hopper
- Dan Bakkedahl as Roy Brewer
- Roger Bart as Buddy Ross
Crew
- Jay Roach - Director
- John McNamara - Writer
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