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This 1992 Kenny Ortega film is based on historical events, the Newsies are a ragged bunch of orphans
who take on Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst to protest unacceptable working conditions imposed while selling the
newspapers.
The story is told through Jack Kelly (Christian Bale), a young orphan with lofty dreams of moving to Santa
Fe to be with his parents who are infact only an imagined. At only seventeen, Kelly has been working as a newsie long enough
to be considered the best. He's a mentor, big brother and even father figure to the rest of the bunch. He also has a
mouth that frequently gets him into trouble.
After the owners increase the cost to their newspaper boys, the Newsies
protest and refuse to peddle the "pape's" as they call them. They spread the strike all over Manhattan, and even across the
bridge into the feared territory of Brooklyn.
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