Amanda Plummer, Carmen Mathews, Edward Asner, Ellen Barkin, Joseph Leon ...( see more  see more... ) , Julie Bovasso , Lindsay Crouse , Mandy Patinkin , Norman Parker , Timothy Hutton , Tovah Feldshuh

The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s.

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Directed by: Sidney Lumet

Release Date: August 26, 1983

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DVD Release Date: July 22, 2008

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  • July 25, 2008
    One of the few underrated films of the early 1980's that went unnoticed. This one,among the rarest that a major studio release that enthusiastically portrays America's Old Left,though in this particular story,gloom naturally trumps the enthusiasm. Inspired by the controversial 19...( read more)53 execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for allegedly passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets,director Sidney Lumet's 1983 movie of E.L. Doctorow's fictionalized The Book of Daniel(screenplay by the author),deals primarity with the effect of family notoriety on children. One offspring(Amanda Plummer) is institutionalized,while the other(Timothy Hutton) is a less obvious head case prone to caustic outbursts. With powerful childhood flashbacks,an ill-received(which got mixed reviews for the critics at the height of its release) movie that Lumet,himself regarded as one his best as weathered a quarter-century well remains a bonafide 80's masterpiece of briliant cinema.

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