Trumbo movie review: Bryan Cranston’s film script is exact and precise

Dalton Trumbo was one of the Hollywood 10 targeted and jailed for being "Communists", at a time soon after World War II and heading into Korean War, when that was a very bad, very unpatriotic term in America. With Bernie Sanders, a self-declared "democratic socialist" -- his rivals insist that's just a more acceptable term for Communist -- knocking at the door of the US Presidency, this then is as good a time as there ever will be to have a film like Trumbo. The script by John McNamara, based on a book by Bruce Cook, spends too much time perhaps on Trumbo's family life (including a woefully underused Lane).