
Trumbo(2015)
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.


1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.

Gary Oldman
Herman Mankiewicz

Amanda Seyfried
Marion Davies

Lily Collins
Rita Alexander

Arliss Howard
Louis B. Mayer

Tom Pelphrey
Joseph Mankiewicz

Sam Troughton
John Houseman

Ferdinand Kingsley
Irving Thalberg

Tuppence Middleton
Sara Mankiewicz

Tom Burke
Orson Welles

Joseph Cross
Charles Lederer
Mank is a drama, history film released in 2020 exploring themes of movie business, screenwriter, biography, hollywood, black and white, alcoholic. Directed by David Fincher, it stars Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins. 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
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