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Newsies
Directed by
Kenny Ortega
PG
1992
2h 1m
Drama
,
Musical
,
and more
6.9
39%
88%
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A musical based on the New York City newsboy strike of 1899. When young newspaper sellers are exploited beyond reason by their bosses they set out to enact change and are met by the ruthlessness of big business.
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Cast of Newsies
Christian Bale
Jack 'Cowboy' Kelly
Bill Pullman
Bryan Denton
Ann-Margret
Medda Larkson
Robert Duvall
Joseph Pulitzer
David Moscow
David Jacobs
Luke Edwards
Les Jacobs
Max Casella
Racetrack Higgins
Gabriel Damon
Spot Conlon
Marty Belafsky
Crutchy
Aaron Lohr
Mush
Dee Caspary
Snitch
Shon Greenblatt
Oscar Delancey
Trey Parker
Kid Blink
Michael A. Goorjian
Skittery
Dominic Lucero
Bumlets
David Sidoni
Pie-Eater
Kevin Stea
Swifty the Rake
Ele Keats
Sarah Jacobs
Jeffrey DeMunn
Mayer Jacobs
Deborra-Lee Furness
Esther Jacobs
Marc Lawrence
Kloppman
Michael Lerner
Weasel
Kevin Tighe
Snyder
Charles Cioffi
Seitz
William Boyett
Judge Movealong Monahan
Shay Duffin
Captain McSwain
Tom Finnegan
Bunsen
Frank Novak
Policeman
Arvie Lowe, Jr.
Boots
Mark David
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Newsies Ratings & Reviews
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Stop the presses! Newsies is the best live-action movie musical since Little Shop of Horrors.
Los Angeles Times
Michael Wilmington
Certain movies engage your affections so strongly that, even if they start to fall apart, you tend to keep rooting for them. That's pretty much the case with Newsies.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The movie stands as a textbook demonstration of why they don't -- and probably shouldn't -- make 'em like they used to.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
An old-fashioned musical that is better when its characters sing and dance than when they talk.
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
Though the cast is large, no interesting or even moderately well-rounded personalities emerge from it, and no compelling relationships emerge between the characters.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Despite Newsies' many flaws, it's bracing to see Disney attempt a PG movie about something as meaty as labor relations. Would that every strike be resolved with so little bloodshed and so many songs.
ChristyLemire.com
Christy Lemire
It's extremely earnest and more than a little corny, but there's an innocence about it that makes it kinda irresistible.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Bale and Menken are literally what make the movie sing.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
...manages some acrobatic dance numbers, but they seem oddly confined by the camera's frame.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Although the material does indeed involve young protagonists, no effort is made to show their lives in a way today's kids can identify with. This movie must seem as odd to them as a foreign film.
Austin Chronicle
Kathleen Maher
This is primarily a children's movie and I have a hard time working up much rancor against a movie as campily perverse as this one is. I sat through the whole thing in open-mouthed wonder.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A Disney musical with an undistinguished score, fair to middling choreography, and clunky direction that still manages to be entertaining in spots because of its story.
Variety
Variety Staff
The writers have created cardboard cutouts instead of flesh-and-blood characters.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
This film's real trouble lies in its joyless, pointless execution.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It looks like its own rehearsal -- an early one at that.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
Its intentions seem fairly modest, and so are its achievements. It's a modestly enjoyable diversion.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Candice Russell
There`s a boyish exuberance about Newsies that is hard to resist.
Baltimore Sun
Stephen Hunter
Newsies is a live-action musical, but it's only barely alive. Call it Snoozies.
Movie Metropolis
James Plath
Bale and the cast are energetic and fun to watch, and the story itself is fascinating history. But the songs and choreography are a disappointment.
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