Cradle Will Rock
1999
**½
Director: Tim Robbins
Cast: Hank Azaria, Cherry Jones, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Cary Elwes
In 1937 Orson Welles prepared to stage the musical The Cradle Will Rock on Broadway. Tim Robbins' ambitious and fascinating drama attempts to tell the story of this production, but he also takes some artistic liberties to throw communist witchhunts, workers' movement and other events of the time in the concoction. Sadly the finished film is overlong and muddled.
