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Thanks! Jul 08, 2010
The movie was great. Played all the way through with no problems. Packaging was good and received fast.
Newsies perfection Jul 02, 2010
Newsies is the greatest - the movie arrived within days of my ordering it. This movie has a high amount of energy between all the singing and the dancing. It is also a movie many can relate to with job frustration and the overwhelming desire to be successful.
Newsies film May 21, 2010
A great product. You can view it in english or spanish, and it got subtitles.
Fun! Lots of music at its best! Great storyline too. Mar 28, 2010
This was well worth the money. Fun! Lots of music at its best! Great storyline too. Highly recommend it if you love musicals.
 When the boys stopped the World Mar 12, 2010
Based upon actual events (the bonus material includes a short featurette about the newsies' strike), this is a story about how the powerless find power and the voiceless a voice. In 1899, the streets of New York City swarm with "newsies"--boys aged about 10 up who serve as the distribution network for the city's half-dozen or so major newspapers in a day before home delivery and newsstands. Some are orphans, some runaways, some from poor or working-class, often immigrant, families where everybody needs to help out or where a breadwinner has been disabled. When Joseph Pulitzer (Robert Duvall), publisher of the New York World, decides to raise the wholesale price of the paper from 50c. per hundred to 60c., they're outraged; as one of them, Kid Blink (Trey Parker), complains, "Bad enough we gotta eat the ones we don't sell, now they up the price on us?!" But the newsies are lucky: they find a leader--17-year-old Jack Kelly (Christian Bale), who's known as "Cowboy" because he dreams of going to live in Santa Fe someday. With the advice of David Jacobs (David Moscow) and the "cute appeal" of his little brother Les (Luke Edwards), Jack soon welds the newsies into an impromptu union and calls a strike. A sympathetic reporter from a rival paper, Bryan Denton (Bill Pullman), becomes their advocate, and a vaudeville performer (Ann-Margret) offers the hall she owns for a rally. But Pulitzer and his powerful counterpart William Randolph Hearst have money, political power (like Judge "Movealong" Monahan (William Boyett) and Snyder (Kevin Tighe), the warden of the juvenile prison known as "The Refuge"), and muscle (like the Delancey brothers, Oscar (Shon Greenblatt) and Morris (David Sheinkopf), who serve as enforcers). The newsies are just kids; they don't even have the vote. Can Jack hold them together long enough to force acceptance of their demands?
With a wonderful cast of sympathetic individual boys including the cripple Crutchy (Marty Belafsky), cigar-smoking Racetrack Higgins (Max Casella), black Boots (Arvie Lowe, Jr.), Mush (Aaron Lohr), Snipeshooter (Matthew Fields), Specs (Mark David), and Pie Eater (David Sidoni), several lively dance numbers, and a great feel for the recreation of turn-of-the-century New York life, this musical drama deserved much better press than it got. Jack, turned cynical by a rough childhood, learns about the potential of "what they call a family" and even finds romance with the Jacobs's sister Sarah (Ele Keats), and there are moments of suspense and even high action, such as when Spot Conlon (Gabriel Damon), the boss of the Brooklyn newsies, brings his tribe into the fray in the very nick of time. The soundtrack Newsies is worth your time too.
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