Actors honor screenwriter Trumbo in documentary

Dustin Hoffman and Kirk Douglas bear witness while Joan Allen, Michael Douglas, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Liam Neeson, Donald Sutherland, Danny Glover, Brian Dennehy, David Strathairn, and Josh Lucas perform monologues in “Trumbo.”

This long roster of some of movies’ most respected actors lends fitting magnitude to the biographical documentary of an industry legend forgotten by the general public. Through the life and career of one brilliant, cantankerous, bawdy and principled screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), it recounts the harrowing history of this country’s Red Scare after World War II.