Just like you, I am sick to death about bio docs about famous artists made under the auspices of their children. There has been a tidal wave of these films, really, and it must freaking stop.
This one, though, I can’t deny, is actually pretty good. Because the star of the film is Dalton Trumbo’s writing – his letters, especially, read in monologue form by great actors like David Strathairn and Liam Neeson and others. So there.
Buy me a beer, though, and we’ll argue if the Hollywood blacklist actually took anyone’s first amendment rights from anyone. Where is it in the constitution that states that everyone has the right to make motion pictures distributed by for-profit organizations?
