Stars: David Strathairn, Donald Sutherland, Paul Giamatti, Joan Allen, Josh Lucas
Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. ...
Stars: Alfred Lewis Levitt, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Ayn Rand, Abraham Polonsky
A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically difference perspective on a key period in the history of American cinema.
Stars: Cliff Curtis, Catherine Dent, Bob Balaban, Paul Grace, Daniel von Bargen
Year, 1951 "Peter Appleton" (Jim Carrey), the screenwriter of Hollywood's "B" films, has been blacklisted by Senator McCarthy's Committee on Anti-American Activities. He falls into the river with his car from a bridge outside the city and then wakes up on the sands of the beach, having forgotten his past. An old man finds him and takes him to Lausanne, a nearby town. In Luzon, Appleton is exchanged for a young man who disappeared during World War II and...
