Making a movie - particularly scripting one - about a great screenwriter must have been a daunting experience. The dialogue throughout is quite brilliant and should deserve serious consideration for an Academy Award by itself, but the acting should be up for grabs too. With a film like this, so well organized, there isn't really much space for camera antics which would only detract from the interior motion of the screenplay. It doesn't opt for this and we are left with some wonderful talents in an unadorned state addressing an issue which still bothers so many people so deeply for reasons as flimsy and undeserved as the ones shown in the film itself. Putting the real excerpt of Trumbo himself speaking of his travails in the end credits was pure genius.
Review of Trumbo
