Synopsis
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
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Cast
- Hank AzariaMarc Blitzsetin
- Rubén BladesDiego Rivera
- Joan CusackHazel Huffman
- John CusackNelson Rockefeller
- Cary ElwesJohn Houseman
- Philip Baker HallGray Mathers
- Cherry JonesHallie Flanagan
- Angus MacfadyenOrson Welles
- Bill MurrayTommy Crickshaw
- Vanessa RedgraveCountess Constance La Grave
Recommendations
- 90
TV Guide Magazine
Stunningly cinematic and audacious on every level, writer/director Tim Robbins's look at the collision of the Depression-era art world and politics may well be a masterpiece. - 80
TNT RoughCut
Entertaining and educational. - 78
Austin Chronicle
Commands respect as mainstream filmmaking with more of an agenda than just pimping cinematic junk food to the brain-dead masses. - 75
Charlotte Observer
It's packed with such passion, humor, fine acting in small roles - there are no big ones - and vitality in the storytelling that the lesson comes across entertainingly. - 75
Boston Globe
Brings the '30s vividly to the screen. - 70
Variety
Succeeds far more often than not in delivering a credible, kaleidoscopic portrait of creative, and often famous, individuals. - 63
San Francisco Chronicle
Wildly ambitious, unwieldy epic. - 60
Village Voice
Historical forces and famous ghosts jostle past each other in this evocation of mid-1930s New York like harried commuters at Grand Central Station.
