The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Acting
Cranston disappears into Trumbo's hunched, chain-smoking brilliance.
Costume
Cigarette holder as character development.
Production
Recreates 1940s Hollywood's paranoia in amber.
Director
Jay Roach
Bryan Cranston
Dalton Trumbo
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Virgil Brooks
Louis C.K.
Arlen Hird
David James Elliott
John Wayne
Elle Fanning
Niki Trumbo
John Goodman
Frank King
Diane Lane
Cleo Trumbo
Michael Stuhlbarg
Edward G. Robinson
Alan Tudyk
Ian McLellan Hunter
Helen Mirren
Hedda Hopper
Dan Bakkedahl
Roy Brewer
Roger Bart
Buddy Ross
Christian Berkel
Otto Preminger
Peter MacKenzie
Robert Kenny
Dean O'Gorman
Kirk Douglas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cranston chain-smoked herbal cigarettes and developed a genuine nicotine addiction during filming.
The real Trumbo wrote Roman Holiday and The Brave One while blacklisted, using fronts—he finally got his Oscar in 1975.
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