Movie Description:
TRUMBO is a unique film about screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and his heroic journey from Hollywood royalty to blacklisted writer to Academy Awardwinner. Based on a play by his son Christopher, TRUMBO documents the rise of Dalton`s career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation frombeing among the "Hollywood Ten" blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled andpenniless, Dalton wrote under various pseudonyms, even winning two Academy Awards. Viewed by many as a moral and just man, Dalton Trumbo stood for theAmerican value and right of free expression.