![]() ![]() Back in those days, the newsboys had to buy the papers themselves (and eat the cost for any they couldn’t unload). Christian Bale plays Jack “Cowboy” Kelly, a vaguely Dickensian street urchin with an accent as majestic as the Brooklyn Bridge. I know this because if you casually name-drop the movie in public, four out of five people will stare at you blankly, and the fifth will jump up and down and say “OH MY GOD I LOVE NEWSIES!!”įor the four out of five of you, the movie is based on the real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899. ![]() ![]() But to me, Newsies is a real, actual cult classic. Saying a movie is a cult classic can be the equivalent of saying a girl has a nice personality. I feel like the words “cult classic” sometimes get used to defend pretty much any film that was a complete commercial failure. ![]()
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