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Daniel (1983) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1983 · 130 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Sidney Lumet
- Starring
- Amanda Plummer, Mandy Patinkin, Ellen Barkin, Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, David Margulies
Fictionalized recounting of Daniel, whose parents Paul and Rochelle Isaacson were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. Now a graduate student in 1960s New York, he joins the anti‑war protest movement, constantly measuring his own activism against the memory of his parents and his conviction that they were wrongfully, firmly condemned.
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