Jan 01, 2024The_Most_Casual_Observer rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The 1992 feature, directed by Kenny Ortega, is an original, for-the-screen musical, about a strike by young newspaper hawkers in New York City, when the newspaper owners tried to cut into their income after the end of the Spanish-American…
Jul 26, 2023lcameron77 rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
This movie sucked, it felt like 4 hours, the characters were ssssssssooooo!!!!!!!!!!! forgettable, the songs were forgettable, jokes made me cringe, just a very forgettable film
Apr 05, 2022DBRL_ChrissJ rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Though this movie is definitely "Disneyfied" it is based on real events and actual people from the summer of 1899 when a newspaper tycoon decided he wasn't rich enough so lowered the profits for the newsies (young newspaper sellers often…
Jan 24, 2020val1 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Wasn't too sure about this musical but thought I'd give it a chance. Really got into it and found myself cheering for the newsies a lot and not really liking the big shot publishers at the time who were doing not nice things to them.…
Mar 19, 2018SPPL_Anna rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I love this movie all the way down to the part in “ Carryin’ the Banner” when Christian Bale messes up the choreography. I once watched it every day for two weeks straight when I was in high school. It’s fun with boys dancing and that…
A chapter in U.S. history about child abuse, when newspaper tycoons such as Joseph Pulitzer (Duvall) with R. Hearst in the background. With poor paper sales, they tried to pass on their losses to the newspaper boys by milking them. The…
Jul 22, 2017Dink8472 rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Newsies is a musical where none of the main characters can carry a tune with a plot line full of holes. There is, however, lots of well-choreographed ensemble dancing if that is what you are looking for. That earns it two stars. I was…
Dec 02, 2016ThomasJWhiting rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
VERY GOOD 1992 Disney production bringing back to the screen a filmed Broadway style which I really enjoy. Film production adds a lot of elements not possible in a live stage production.
There were several entertaining full street…
Jan 11, 2016VRMurphy rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
How on earth was this popular enough to warrant a Broadway version? Duvall phoned it in (and an amateur appears to have applied his whiskers, which look ridiculously fake), Bale neither sings nor dances well and looks like he'd rather be…
Dec 23, 2015biblioQ rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Great production by Disney. A musical drama based on a true story of a strike by newsboys in New York City in 1899. Currently a Broadway show, but the movie sets add the authentic look and feel of the time.
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May 15, 2015JMGP rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Take the orphans, the nasty orphan overseer, the longing for a family, and FDR from Annie, the street urchins, and bullies from Oliver, the setting and dance moves from West Side, and a rally to revolution from Les Mis, give it a twist and…
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