"Are you now or have you ever been..."

2015

2h 4m

7.2(1610 votes)

Drama

Overview

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.

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Videos & Trailers

10 videos

Cast & Crew

40 members

Acting

Bryan Cranston

Dalton Trumbo

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Diane Lane

Cleo Trumbo

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Helen Mirren

Hedda Hopper

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Elle Fanning

Nikola Trumbo

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Louis C.K.

Arlen Hird

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John Goodman

Frank King

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Michael Stuhlbarg

Edward G. Robinson

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David James Elliott

John Wayne

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Roger Bart

Buddy Ross

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Mark Harelik

Ed Muhl

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John Getz

Sam Wood

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Alan Tudyk

Ian McLellan Hunter

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James DuMont

J. Parnell Thomas

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Richard Portnow

Louis B. Mayer

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Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Virgil Brooks

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Stephen Root

Hymie King

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Mattie Liptak

Chris Trumbo (Age 13-17)

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Dean O'Gorman

Kirk Douglas

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Garrett Hines

Andrew Hird

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Christian Berkel

Otto Preminger

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Dan Bakkedahl

Roy Brewer

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Toby Nichols

Chris Trumbo (age 6-10) (as Tobias McDowell Nichols)

Writing

Dalton Trumbo

Himself (archive footage)

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Laura Flannery

Party Goer

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Madison Wolfe

Niki Trumbo (age 8-11)

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Johnny Sneed

Robert Stripling

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Rio Hackford

Reporter

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Dane Rhodes

Reporter

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Peter MacKenzie

Robert Kenny

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John Neisler

Jury Foreman

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Sean Bridgers

Jeff Krandall

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Meghan Wolfe

Mitzi Trumbo (age 6-8)

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Becca Nicole Preston

Mitzi Trumbo (age 9-12)

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Mark Harelik

Edward 'Ed' Muhl

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Jaclyn Bethany

Starlet (uncredited)

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Kate Kuen

Ethel (uncredited)

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Suzanne LaChasse

Showgirl (uncredited)

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Rhonda Laizer

Trumbo Friend (uncredited)

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Veronica Parks

Showgirl (uncredited)

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Anne Speed

Juror (uncredited)

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