Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter (The Brave One, Exodus, Kitty Foyle, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Lonely Are the Brave, Spartacus, Roman Holiday, Papillon) and novelist (Johnny Got His Gun), refused, along with the rest of the "Hollywood Ten", to answer Congress' questions regarding his political affiliations during his appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

For this,Trumbo was fired from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and imprisoned for a year in 1950. After his release, Trumbo, blacklisted and "broke as a bankrupt's bastard," was unable to find work in the United States. His letters, brilliant, biting, and hilarious, tell the story of a family's survival and one stubborn artist's crusade to break the blacklist.

TRUMBO is a story of an American who took on Congress, Hollywood and a fearful nation...and won.

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