The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
Bryan Cranston
as Dalton Trumbo
Diane Lane
as Cleo Trumbo
Helen Mirren
as Hedda Hopper
Elle Fanning
as Nikola Trumbo
Louis C.K.
as Arlen Hird
John Goodman
as Frank King
Michael Stuhlbarg
as Edward G. Robinson
David James Elliott
as John Wayne
Roger Bart
as Buddy Ross
Mark Harelik
as Ed Muhl
John Getz
as Sam Wood
Alan Tudyk
as Ian McLellan Hunter