Newsies

A Thousand Voices. A Single Dream.

Sinopse

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.

6.7
1992
Released
2h 1m

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$15,000,000.00

Revenue

$2,819,485.00

Keywords

#new york city
#musical
#based on true story
#teenage girl
#teenage boy
#juvenile crime
#brawl
#boy singer
#name change
#slingshot
#juvenile detention center
#corrupt official
#turn of the century
#newspaper boy
#19th century
#newsboy
#correctional institution
#20th century

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Reviews

@GenerationofSwinealmost 3 years ago

This was a financial flop for Disney that became a cult classic and finally turned a profit in video rentals. Let's look at this logically (especially since I was 12 when it came out and as a 12 year old I was about all things movie related), this wasn't a failure of the film, it was a failure of marketing. No one heard about it, no one knew about it, they failed in the marketing campaign, n

@r96skabout 5 years ago

Enjoyed this. I've noted before that musicals aren't my favourite (the more I watch, the more they grow on me to be honest), but I had a fun time viewing <em>'Newsies'</em>. It manages to maintain the entertainment whilst keeping strong focus on both the music and storyline, a lot of the musicals that I've seen tend to focus on the tunes first and almost forget about the plot, this doesn't. I t