Newsies
PG
8.3
2017
2 hr 14 min
Drama
, Comedy
, History
, Music
, Romance
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.
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- Cast：
- Jeremy Jordan , Kara Lindsay , Ben Fankhauser , Andrew Keenan-Bolger , Steve Blanchard , Aisha de Haas , Ethan Steiner
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Reviews
Good movie but grossly overrated
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Excellent but underrated film
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The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
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The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
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