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Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 movie written and directed by Tim Robbins. Set in 1937, it is a somewhat fictionalized account of the genesis and first performance of Marc Blitzstein's musical The Cradle Will Rock, which was directed by Orson Welles.

Cradle Will Rock is Tim Robbins's third film as a director. Back in 1992, Robbins directed his first movie, Bob Roberts
, and acted in Robert Altman's The Player
. Altman saw Bob Roberts and dubbed Robbins "the next Orson Welles". His second film, the award-winning Dead Man Walking
(1995), survived with its unhappy ending intact, unlike Welles's second film The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), which was taken out of his hands and re-cut.

More than that, Cradle Will Rock was meant to be Welles's last film as a director. It went into pre-production in 1983 (with Rupert Everett on board to play Welles) before the backers pulled out and the production collapsed.

Cradle Will Rock follows a myriad of characters, mostly connected in varying degrees to Welles's production of the play. Just before the play opens, cutbacks in the Federal Theater Project force it to shut down. Welles (Angus Macfadyen) and his producer John Houseman (Cary Elwes) move the play to another theater. The cast, forbidden by their union to go on stage, performs the show from the audience. The theme of censorship is mirrored in the story of Rockefeller's commission, then destruction, of a mural by Diego Rivera because it features the face of Lenin.

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