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Cradle Will Rock | 
| Actors: Hank Azaria, Bob Balaban, Jack Black, Ruben Blades, Joan Cusack
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.99
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Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 24504
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 132 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D18288D
ISBN: 078881821X
UPC: 717951004765
EAN: 9780788818219
ASIN: B00003CWNU
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Release Date: May 16, 2000
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Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 05/09/2006
Amazon.com
"Based on a (mostly) true story," according to the opening titles, Tim Robbins's dazzling dramatization of one of the great stories in American theater indeed takes a few liberties with history. Ostensibly the story of the mayhem surrounding Marc Blitzstein's worker's opera The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles for the WPA at the height of the Depression, Robbins paints a veritable mural around this incident, a city alive with plotting industrialists (John Cusack as Nelson Rockefeller), radical artists (Ruben Blades's Diego Rivera), and struggling citizens (Bill Murray's frustrated vaudeville ventriloquist Tommy Crickshaw). Lightning strikes when the government closes the show before it even opens and the cast marches 20 blocks to an empty theater and tosses the staging aside to perform in the aisles, the balconies, and the seats. It's a rare moment of cinema capturing the immediacy and charge of live theater on the screen and it's the heart of Robbins's often exhilarating film. His heroes are Blitzstein (a warm, gently impassioned Hank Azaria) and cheery WPA Theater director Hallie Flanagan (Broadway star Cherry Jones), but in the process he snidely turns Welles and producer John Houseman into sour, silly caricatures. The stew of artistic creation and political action gets murky and at times contradictory, but vivid performances and Robbins' driving pace and staccato crosscutting keep it humming through even the most didactic moments. The songs are by Blitzstein, and the character-rich cast also features Vanessa Redgrave, Susan Sarandon, John Turturro, Emily Watson, and Philip Baker Hall. --Sean Axmaker
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 An Appropriate Title March 11, 2009
Brian Shelton (Easley,S.C. USA)
Cradle Will Rock.I had forgotten about this movie or film until I had caught a segment of it on television.I Enjoyed the Frida Kalo and Diego Rivera part of the film,being an art lover.I was not impressed by Bill Murray as a Washed-up ventriloquist but he is a fine actor.I wont go into the other segment's.The Actors did a fine job.Accuracy I cannot speak for,If you enjoy musical theater or over the top acting enjoy.I recommend the Movie Frida-for Frida Kalo lover's.
 A play about the play June 13, 2008
Christine A. Frezza (Cedar City, utah)
The Arts Retrospective students saw a clip from this movie, and immediately became passionate about doing the show (Cradle Will Rock) and also doing a frame - the show about the show, which they see as important; I bought the DVD to convince my fellow faculty the show is worth doing.
NYC in 1930s December 26, 2007
Reader (Chicago, IL USA)
Tom Robbins' film is depicting time in US history that affected art in a big way. It is 1930s, country is coming out of depression while Europe is in turmoil. As government is establishing funds for theatres around the country, there is also persecution of communist symphatizers going on. Fascists regimes from Europe are too busy negotiating steel prices for their growing military demands and the best way to establish such "business" relationships is thru "selling" art. As rich like Hurst and Rockefeller are accumulating modern art and misplaced DaVinci's in their living rooms and placing them above fireplaces; Diego Rivera with a help of Frieda Kahlo is painting his famous mural that will be taken down shortly after it's unveiling. This film is saturated with stars and the topic is too complex and too broad for 90 minute movie. Robbins has attempted to tackle too much and it shows. Interesting part of US history shown thru an artist's point of view.
 A Bad Day at Black Rock - Unforgettable November 2, 2007
Carlos Camargo (Brazil)
Bad Day at Black RockA Masterpiece that should be rediscover for the screenplay, for the direction and this powerfull acting of Spencer Tracy.
Carlito Camargo
 i guess we wont be seeing a film version of "juno" or "reuben reuben" in the near future June 11, 2007
Jonathan Lapin (Brooklyn, NY USA)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
tim robbins is oh so right in his political points of view; its a damn shame that hes such an amateurish actor and (here) director. he manages here to trivialize one of the most memorable moments of mid-20th century american theater, and to portray as buffoons a number of persons of vastly greater talent than tim robbins, among them orson welles, john houseman, and marc blitzstein. (not to even mention the hatchet job on nelson rockefeller, who was portrayed far more fairly in "frida", arising from the same incident -- hmm, i guess i DID mention it). the film is sophomoric and replete with ham performances from alot of actors who should know better, with only bill murray acquitting himself well. and most annoying of all is the scant amount of the blitzstein score that is used, further proof of mr robbins trusting his own talents ahead of those of a genuine artist. one of the worst movies ive seen in a long time.
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