Trumbo (2015)

It took me a while to get past Cranston’s weird grumbly vocal delivery (and after seeing newsreel of the actual Trumbo, I have no idea WHY Cranston was doing it) but, once I did, I found this to be a pretty interesting film. I didn’t know much about how McCarthy and the House Un American Activities Committee operated and I was glad to get some of it straight. I was less glad about the fact that I couldn’t keep many the characters straight -- the film seemed to assume that we viewers should just know the screenwriters involved. But why would we?

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