

Newsies
A thousand voices. A single dream. A sing-along reality.
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $15M
- Box office
- $2.8M
- Language
- English
- new york city
- musical
- based on true story
- teenage girl
- teenage boy
- juvenile crime
- brawl
- boy singer
- name change
- slingshot
- juvenile detention center
- corrupt official
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG10 Apr 1992
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1213 Aug 1992
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG14 Aug 1992
South KoreaKR
- Physical1530 Mar 1993
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Newsies was released on 10 April 1992.
Audience reviews
2- R8/10
r96sk
9/23/2020
Enjoyed this. I've noted before that musicals aren't my favourite (the more I watch, the more they grow on me to be honest), but I had a fun time viewing <em>'Newsies'</em>. It manages to maintain the entertainment whilst keeping strong focus on both the music and storyline, a lot of the musicals that I've seen tend to focus on the tunes first and almost forget about the plot, this doesn't. I thoroughly liked seei…
- G10/10
GenerationofSwine
1/17/2023
This was a financial flop for Disney that became a cult classic and finally turned a profit in video rentals. Let's look at this logically (especially since I was 12 when it came out and as a 12 year old I was about all things movie related), this wasn't a failure of the film, it was a failure of marketing. No one heard about it, no one knew about it, they failed in the marketing campaign, no real buzz was arou…
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