War has plunged Army soldier Joe Bonham (Timothy Bottoms) into an unending nightmare. He is now blind, deaf, limbless, and mute after a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in his body, Joe realizes there's only one way out of his misery: death.
27 July 1940, North Bend, Oregon, USA
26 February 1941, USA
30 November 1874, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK
17 October 1917, Chicago, Illinois, USA
23 February 1938, San Mateo, California, USA
26 July 1922, Chicago, Illinois, USA
23 June 1912, Essex, London, England, UK
18 April 1958, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA
8 December 1924, Brooklyn, New York, USA
10 October 1927, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
24 April 1856, Cauchy-à-la-Tour, Pas-de-Calais, France
27 June 1950, USA
30 August 1951, Santa Barbara, California, USA
15 July 1927, Bakersfield, California, USA
23 July 1944, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
14 November 1904, Douglas, Arizona, USA
14 December 1924, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
9 December 1905, Montrose, Colorado, USA
17 July 1935, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
8 September 1911, Chicago, Illinois, USA
23 November 1930, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
May 06, 2009
Sadly, time has not made this story any less relevant or potent.
October 23, 2004
Instead of belaboring ironic points about the "war to end war," Trumbo remains stubbornly on the human level.
July 21, 2010
Problems aside, there's a cumulative power to the material and an idea that's impossible to ignore.
February 09, 2006
The film is often sentimental, sometimes brilliant as well as horrifying, and it is intriguing to speculate on what Buñuel, whom Trumbo originally wanted to direct, would have made of it.
January 12, 2010
[Trumbo's] filmmaking is frugal -- jump-cuts state the passage of time, a languid fade to yellow signifies solar warmth.
March 28, 2009
a sobering, grueling look at us
November 09, 2008
The primal power of the story -- a young man trying to find some sense in what's happened to him -- prevails.
April 04, 2009
strong historical and literate adaptation of a truly remarkable anti-war classic
April 19, 2009
Dalton Trumbo (member of the Hollywood Ten) sole directing effort is one of the most hauntingly powerful anti-war film made, an experimental work that's effective as realistic portrait of war's damages as well as metaphoric, quasi-religious journey.
July 19, 2008
Ainda que contenha algumas seqüências memoráveis e angustie pela situação de seu protagonista, este único trabalho deTrumbo na direção é óbvio tanto em sua mensagem anti-belicista quanto em sua abordagem fantasiosa.
May 09, 2005
Although Mr. Trumbo is primarily a screenwriter, screenwriting is only the worst of the film's several failures.
January 12, 2010
Trumbo, directing his first film, drives home his points in a somewhat obvious, often awkward fashion that is overly talky, but so disquieting is his story and the reality underlying it that it is difficult not to be moved by the film.
