

Newsies
They delivered the papers, until they made the headlines...
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
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- Box office
- $2.8M
- Language
- English
- new york city
- musical
- based on true story
- based on play or musical
- love
- teenage girl
- orphan
- teenage boy
- based on movie
- corrupt official
- workers union
- turn of the century
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG16 Feb 2017
FranceFR
- Digital / OTT10Disney+7 Apr 2020
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical (limited)22 Feb 2017
South KoreaKR
- Digital / OTT1222 Aug 2017
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Newsies was released on 16 February 2017.
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newsiesfanatic
10/15/2017
Its very rare a Broadway musical finds its way to the big screen but with Newsies it was just destined to happen with some of the best dancing, and singing you will ever see. Newsies is has always been a 10/10 but now thanks to this professional recording its an 11 in my book
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CinemaSerf
10/22/2023
I'm not usually a fan of filmed theatrical performances - especially musical theatre. The television so often fails to capture the vitality of the performances and often we are left with something rather lacking. Well, to be fair to Disney, they have managed to capture loads of the energy and dynamism of this adaptation of Harvey Fierstein's book about the strike by the newspaper delivery boys in New York in 1899. Th…
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