Newsies
A Thousand Voices. A Single Dream.
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.
- Director
- Kenny Ortega
- Worldwide
- $3M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
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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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Box Office & Release
Newsies returned 0.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $15M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $3M
- Release date
- Apr 10, 1992
- Runtime
- 2h 1m
- MPAA rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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