Opens November 20 @ the Bijou: In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood’s top screenwriter until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. The film recounts how Dalton used words and wit to win two Academy Awards and expose the absurdity and injustice under the blacklist, which entangled everyone from gossip columnist Hedda Hopper to John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger. With Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, David James Elliott, Alan Tudyk. Rated R for language including some sexual references.
Also opening today@ the Bijou is Spotlight, about the Boston Globe Pulitzer Prize winning investigative news team that in 2002 exposed the cover-up of clergy pedophiles in the Catholic Church by Cardinal Bernard Law. Sister Rose Pacette wrote in the National Catholic Reporter, “Spotlight reminds us to keep vigil on ourselves as church, that we will be the Christians we say we are, that we do not choose the institution over God’s people, especially children, the poor and the vulnerable.” Rated R for some language including sexual references
