Cradle Will Rock (1999)

Directed by

Tim Robbins

Genre

drama film, comedy drama

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 09m

Rated

R

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 99 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A fictionalized account of the creation of a 1930s musical. It follows the struggles of artists and workers as they navigate political pressures and labor disputes.

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What happens

Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 American historical drama film written, produced and directed by Tim Robbins. The story fictionalizes the true events that surrounded the development of the 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein; it adapts history to create an account of the original production, bringing in other stories of the time to produce a social commentary on the role of art and power in the 1930s, particularly amidst the struggles of the labor movement at the time and the corresponding appeal of socialism and communism among many intellectuals, artists and working-class people in the same period. The film is not based on Orson Welles's unproduced screenplay for The Cradle Will Rock, an autobiographical drama about the production of Blitzstein's musical. Written in 1984, a year before Welles's death, the script was published in 1994; the film has not been produced. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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