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Jan 21, 2000 · Cradle Will Rock: Directed by Tim Robbins. With Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack, John Cusack. A true story of politics and art in the 1930s U.S., focusing on a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
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- Drama
- Tim Robbins
- 2000-01-21
Plot. At the height of the Great Depression, aspiring singer Olive Stanton dreams of getting a job as an actress with the Federal Theatre Project. Playwright Marc Blitzstein is working on his new musical, The Cradle Will Rock, but lacks the inspiration to finish it.
Olive (Emily Watson) and Aldo (John Turturro) break the law by performing in a controversial musical in Touchstone's Cradle Will Rock Philip Baker Hall as big businessman Gray Mathers in ...
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- Tim Robbins
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- Hank Azaria
Dec 24, 1999 · Tim Robbins' sweeping, ambitious film "Cradle Will Rock" is a chronicle of that time, knitting together stories and characters both real and fictional, in a way similar to John Dos Passos' novel USA. It tells the story of the production of Marc Blitzstein's class-conscious musical "The Cradle Will Rock"; its opening has been called the most ...
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A true story of politics and art in the 1930s U.S., focusing on a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production. In 1930s New York Orson Welles tries to stage a musical on a steel strike under the Federal Theater Program despite pressure from an establishment fearful of industrial unrest and red activity.
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Cradle Will Rock. Powerful and sweeping, the critically acclaimed CRADLE WILL ROCK, starring Hank Azaria, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Bill Murray, and Susan Sarandon, takes a kaleidoscopic look at the extraordinary events of 1930s America.
