Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Gareth Crook Cranston is a magnetic on screen presence and Mirren is surprisingly vile, great of course, but truly vile. I'd wondered why I'd not heard of this fellow. That he wrote most of his best stuff (including Spartacus) under pseudonyms having being pushed out of Hollywood due to his politics explains a lot. It's not all dark though, in fact it's all delivered quite pleasantly, with plenty of humour. Not least with Trumbo squaring up defiantly against the John Wayne character in a particularly amusing scene. I've no idea what The Duke was like in real life, but here he's painted a little bit like Charlton Heston, a gun toting good ol boy. It's a scene of brain against brawn, intelligence verses paranoia. It may be a slightly bleak story, but blimey if it's not great!

ops-52535 brilliant acting by Cranston very nice settings.visually near perfect.tells a tragic story about American history in a very soulful way.a story that bring out the hidden characters behind the making of great movies. if you feel like being entertained , this is the movie to choose . definitely on my top 20 list....

blumdeluxe "Trumbo" was rightfully nominated for some of the bigger film prizes. It tells the story of Trumbo, a writer for movie scripts, that is persuaded by the government and ends on a blacklist of Communists that aren't in the position to work as ordinary anymore.While I really enjoyed most of the movie and it kept me interested throughout the whole playtime, there are mainly two things that prevent this film from being even more powerful in my eyes. Firstly, even though the humor carries bigger parts of the movie and I like the fact that Trumbo is quick-witted, it would have been nice to see a broader variety of emotions. There must have been some situations throughout that time that really left him desperate or sad and you don't really see that in the movie.Secondly, it would have been nice to also see what this policy meant for more common people. A screenplay writer is in a quite distinguished position and I could imagine that someone working in a more "exchangeable" job could suffer even more from the tensions. Of course that's not the fault of the movie, since it only tells the story of Trumbo but it is a false image to think that all you have to be is a good worker to be granted justice.All in all it is a very good, but not an excellent movie. Good movie for a more serious film night.

Lee Eisenberg I had heard of the Hollywood Ten for years, and about Dalton Trumbo's works. Jay Roach's "Trumbo" shows how the screenwriter got targeted after the US declared the USSR the enemy, and then spent a year in jail, unable to submit a script thereafter (so he had some people act as fronts for him). The blacklist continued for years as HUAC and Joe McCarthy targeted anyone whom they considered "anti-American".The movie should remind us of a few things. Trumbo and his cohorts (who served in the armed forces in WWII) attempt to remind people of the First Amendment, but the likes of John Wayne (who did NOT serve in the armed forces) won't hear of it. And nowadays, people like Chuck Norris claim that conservatives get blacklisted in Hollywood. For the record, there's no committee asking Kirk Cameron and his ilk "Are you or have you ever been a member of a right-wing entity?". Basically, the right wing is not a collection of fiscal conservatives, but a collection of racist, sexist, homophobic ideologues (the types who think that global warming is a hoax but creationism should get taught in schools). These people have become a literal threat to humanity, and it's bound to get even worse under the coming Donald Trump presidency.Anyway, the movie is something that everyone should see. Between this movie, "Breaking Bad" and "All the Way", Bryan Cranston has come a long way from "Malcolm in the Middle". With this movie and "All the Way", it nowadays seems like a surprise that Jay Roach directed the Austin Powers movies and the "Meet the Parents" movies. Really good movie.Also starring Diane Lane, Elle Fanning, Michael Stuhlbarg, John Goodman, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K. and Alan Tudyk (the Duke of Weselton in "Frozen").A piece of trivia is that Dalton Trumbo and Kirk Douglas had the same birthday: December 9. To be certain, today is Douglas's 100th birthday.