Rotten
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.
Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times
Newsies
A Thousand Voices. A Single Dream.
1992 · 2h 1m · PG
Drama, Family, History, Music
Directed by
Kenny Ortega
Overview
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.
Director and cast
- Kenny Ortega Director
- Christian Bale as Jack 'Cowboy' Kelly
- Bill Pullman as Bryan Denton
- Ann-Margret as Medda Larkson
- Robert Duvall as Joseph Pulitzer
- David Moscow as David Jacobs
- Luke Edwards as Les Jacobs
- Max Casella as Racetrack Higgins
- Gabriel Damon as Spot Conlon
- Marty Belafsky as Crutchy
- Arvie Lowe Jr. as Boots
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
39%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Bale and Menken are literally what make the movie sing.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
Fresh
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.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
Stop the presses! Newsies is the best live-action movie musical since Little Shop of Horrors.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
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