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MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Kenny Ortega
Genre: Period Film, Musical Drama, Musical
Box Office: / Domestic gross: $2,820,000
Release Date: April 08, 1992 (USA)
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Summary:
A failed effort to revive the big-budget movie musical, Newsies attempted to create toe-tapping, song-and-dance excitement out of the true story of an 1899 strike by newspaper boys against publishing magnate Joseph Pulitzer. The "newsies" band together to protest a pay cut by Pulitzer (Robert Duvall), organizing a union to protect their rights and ... Full Summary >>


Cast:
Christian Bale - (Jack Kelly)
David Moscow - (David Jacobs)
Luke Edwards - (Les Jacobs)
Max Casella - (Racetrack)
Ann-Margret - (Medda Larkson)
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Review:
Touted by its makers as an attempt to bring live-action musical motion-pictures into the '90s, Newsies fails not because it lacks what the great musicals of the past had, but because it inserts nothing new into the genre, simply rehashing the archety ... Continue >>

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