Cradle Will Rock

Name: Cradle Will Rock
Genre: Drama
Released: 1999-12-10
Duration: 2 h 12 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Cary Elwes

Art is never dangerous... unless it tells the truth.

Cradle Will Rock (1999)

Timing: 2:12 (132 min)

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Budget

$36 000 000

Box office

$2 903 404

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Director

Tim Robbins

Actors

Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Cary Elwes, Philip Baker Hall, Cherry Jones, Angus Macfadyen, Bill Murray, Vanessa Redgrave
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Scenario

Tim Robbins

Producer

Tim Robbins, Jon Kilik, Lydia Dean Pilcher, Allan F. Nicholls, Louise Krakower, Frank Beacham

Camera operator

Jean-Yves Escoffier

Composer

David Robbins

Artist

Richard Hoover

Audition

Douglas Aibel

Editing

Geraldine Peroni
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Short description

A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

What's left behind the scenes

The film was originally planned for release in 1984, but financial circumstances prevented this. That version was to be directed by Orson Welles (1915-1985) from a screenplay he had written himself. Rupert Everett would have played Welles in his youth, and Amy Irving would have played the role of his first wife. The screenplay written by Welles was published after his death. The director of that version, Tim Robbins, claims he did not read Welles' script.
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is briefly glimpsed in one of the shots. The film is set in 1936, when he was still alive.