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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="4"><br>Cradle Will Rock</font> <font size="2"><br>video review by David Ng</font> <font size=3 face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"> <p><font size="6" color="#FF0000"><b>I</b></font>n Tim Robbins' expertly crafted but politically manipulative <i>Cradle Will Rock</i>, every scene is an impassioned ode to the grassroots wholesomeness of the American proletariat. Workers are saints, Robbins wants us to believe, whose aspirations are always being trampled by capitalist swine. The casting of Emily Watson, John Turturro, Bill Murray, Cherry Jones, and Hank Azaria as working-class theater professionals is shrewdly calculated: they all sport angelic, childlike faces that only a millionaire could hate. <i>Cradle Will Rock</i> is so unrestrained with its political sympathy that despite great technical and narrative achievements it comes off as just another piece of socialist propaganda. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>