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Atlas Shrugged: Part I
Directed by
Paul Johansson
PG-13
2011
1h 37m
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Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden form an alliance to fight the increasingly authoritarian government of the United States.
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Cast of Atlas Shrugged: Part I
Taylor Schilling
Dagny Taggart
Grant Bowler
Henry "Hank" Rearden
Matthew Marsden
James Taggart
Edi Gathegi
Eddie Willers
Jsu Garcia
Francisco D'Anconia
Graham Beckel
Ellis Wyatt
Jon Polito
Orren Boyle
Patrick Fischler
Paul Larkin
Rebecca Wisocky
Lillian Rearden
Michael Lerner
Wesley Mouch
Neill Barry
Philip Rearden
Christina Pickles
Mother Rearden
Joel McKinnon Miller
Herbert Mowen
Armin Shimerman
Dr. Potter
David Doty
Mayor Bascom
Rob Brownstein
Eugene Lawson
Geoff Pierson
Michael "Midas" Mulligan
Paul Johansson
John Galt / Director
Stephen Chester Prince
Engineer
Navid Negahban
Dr. Robert Stadler
Craig Tsuyumine
Reporter #1
Annabelle Gurwitch
Reporter #2
Jan Morris
Denise Greco
Ethan Cohn
Owen Kellogg
Christopher Mur
Marco Ramirez
Jack Milo
Richard McNamara
Matt O'Toole
Brenden Brady
David Goryl
Jay Knight
Nikki Klecha
Gwen Ives
Daisy McCrackin
Clerk
Sylva Kelegian
Ivy Starnes
June Squibb
Mrs. Hastings
Michael O'Keefe
Hugh Akston
Mercedes Connor
Cherryl Brooks
Josephine Rene
Waitress
Olivia Presely
Waitress
Clay Bunker
NNT Reporter
January Welsh
Reporter
Latasha Muhammad
Reporter
Frank Cassavetes
Diner Bum
Maia Tarin
Joy
Derric Nugent
Fire Chief
Jeff Cockey
Bartender
Travis Seaborn
Bartender
Marissa Welsh
Ballroom Dancer
Ron Provencal
Ballroom Dancer
Christopher Karl Johnson
Senator at Press Conference
Katherine M. O'Connor
Senator at Press Conference
Kim Swennen
Newscaster 1
Mel Fair
Newscaster 2
Mandy June Turpin
Newscaster 3
Ayn Rand
Writer
Brian Patrick O'Toole
Writer
John Aglialoro
Writer / Producer
Harmon Kaslow
Producer
Atlas Shrugged: Part I Ratings & Reviews
New York Times
Carina Chocano
Atlas Shrugged: Part I is in many ways charmingly oblivious to its inherent contradictions and the fact that its capitalist titans appear to be squatting in old, abandoned Dynasty sets, eating food-court baked potatoes.
jackiekcooper.com
Jackie K. Cooper
As timely as a Tea Party rally, Ayn Rand's novel finally reaches the screen - at least a part of it does.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
It has a story, I suppose, and it even kind of has conflict... Mostly, it has talking. Weirdly esoteric talking about weirdly esoteric things.
Tri-City Herald
Gary Wolcott
I am not advocating for Rand's political point of view. It is worth a discussion. Only it deserves a better discussion than is given in Atlas Shrugged: Part 1.
Movies.com
Dave White
This Sharktopus-budget-level cheap, badly-acted, clumsily-written and stiffly-directed movie... still has a lot to offer film fans on both sides of the Great Ayn Rand Divide.
L.A. Weekly
Brian Miller
Apart from its deficiencies as fiction, whatever its philosophical limitations (the rich and able should only help themselves in Rand's "Objectivism"), the book proves proudly indigestible on film.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
This comically tasteless and flavorless adaptation of Ayn Rand's bombastic magnum opus delivers her simplistic nostrums with smug self-satisfaction.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
The film is curiously sterile and lifeless, hardly the stuff of revolution. It feels more like an ideologically reversed Tucker: The Man And His Dream, written and performed by robots.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Ayn Rand's monumental 1,168-page, 1957 novel gets the low-budget, no-talent treatment and sits there flapping on screen like a bludgeoned seal.
Washington Post
Mark Jenkins
The first in a proposed trilogy, "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1" is nearly as stilted, didactic and simplistic as Rand's free-market fable.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Though a bit stiff in the joints and acted by an undistinguished cast amid TV-movie trappings, this low-budget adaptation of Ayn Rand's novel nevertheless contains a fire and a fury that makes it more compelling than the average mass-produced studio item.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Don't hold your breath for parts 2 and 3.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A low-budget film with more than a whiff of amateurism in its writing and direction.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Atlas Shrugged. I arched eyebrow, scrunched forehead, yawned.
Boston Globe
Loren King
About to lose his long-held rights to Ayn Rand's novel, and perhaps to cash in on apparent Tea Party interest and support, producer John Aglialoro ... rushed this film into a low-budget production and it shows in every frame.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
The acting is so poor and the story so badly told that the viewer's feelings about Rand's novel -- an epic ode to free-market fundamentalism -- are almost immaterial (though if you're a devoted fan, you'll perhaps be more forgiving).
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
This movie is crushingly ordinary in every way, which with Rand I wouldn't have thought possible.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Let's say you know the novel, you agree with Ayn Rand, you're an objectivist or a libertarian, and you've been waiting eagerly for this movie. Man, are you going to get a letdown.
The Hollywood Reporter
Todd McCarthy
Flubbed, under-produced representation of the first third of Ayn Rand's still controversial novel bodes ill for parts two and three.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Part one of a trilogy that may never see completion, this hasty, low-budget adaptation would have Ayn Rand spinning in her grave.
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