Tim Robbins encourages everyone to pirate his 1999 film, 'Cradle Will Rock'

Robbins was on the latest Bill Simmons Podcast. Around the 1:43 mark, Robbins talks about "Cradle will Rock" and how of all his movies it is the one that he wishes more people would watch.

The story behind it is that Robbins made this movie with Disney, but the company switched leadership before the film was set to be released. The new guy hated the movie and wanted to dump it. So, they released for one day in 100 theatres with no ad campaign and then pulled it. The movie ended up making less than 3 million dollars on a 36 million dollar budget.

The description of the movie on Wikipedia: "The story fictionalizes the true events that surrounded the development of the 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein; it adapts history to create an account of the original production, bringing in other stories of the time to produce a social commentary on the role of art and power in the 1930s, particularly amidst the struggles of the labor movement at the time and the corresponding appeal of socialism and communism among many intellectuals, artists and working-class people in the same period."

Submitted December 06, 2019 at 09:19AM by banngbanng https://ift.tt/2rat4N4