Film Review

By DENNIS HARVEY (Variety.com)

An antiwar literary classic reaches the bigscreen (again) via stage translation in "Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun." That circuitous route benefits the interior monologue of a soldier robbed of speech, sight and limbs, struggling to maintain sanity in his hospital bed. Ably filmed by veteran stage producer-director Rowan Joseph, Bradley Rand Smith's theatrical script provides a bravura thespian workout for Ben McKenzie. Critical support and the recent docu "Trumbo" might help attract niche attention to Truly Indie's city-by-city, single-screen release before it begins its shelf life as a smallscreen broadcast/educational item.

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