Title :
Newsies / Touchwood Pacific Partners I ; Walt Disney Pictures ; producer, Michael Finnell ; writers, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White ; director, Kenny Ortega.
Title:
Newsies
Format:
DVD
System details note:
DVD.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition:
Collector's edition
ISBN:
9780788831003
Production / Publication Information:
[United States] : Walt Disney Home Video ; [Burbank, CA] : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2002]
General Note:
Information from pre-release promotional materials; release date: Jan. 15, 2002.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1992.
Special features: Audio commentary by director Kenny Ortega; sing-along feature (lyrics at the bottom of the screen); historical featurette about the real newspaper boy strike.
Summary:
July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful.
Participant or performer note:
Christian Bale, David Moscow, Luke Edwards, Max Casella, Robert Duvall, Ann-Margret.
Creation production and credits note:
Cinematography, Andrew Laszlo ; editor, William Reynolds ; music, Alan Menken, J.A.C. Redford.
Target audience note:
MPAA rating: PG.
Language:
English
Language note:
Closed-captioned.