DISNEY’S THE NEWIES

DISNEY’S THE NEWIES WAS RELEASED ON APRIL 10TH 1992.

DISNEY’S NEWIES IS A 1 DISNEY MOVE 1992 ITS LOOSELY BASED ON THE NEW YORK NEWSBOY STRIKE OF 1899 AND FEATURES 12 ORGINAL SONGS BY ALAN MEKIN IT STARS CHRISTAIN BALE, BILL PULMAN, ANN- MARGRET AND ROBERT DUVALL. THE PLOT: IN 1899 A 17 YEAR OLD JACK COWBOY KELLY IS ONE OF MANY STRUGGLING NEWSPAPER HAWKS IN NEW YORK CITY SELLING COPIES OF THE NEW YORK WORLD ON THE STREETS OF MANHATTEN ( CARRING THE BANNER) WHEN DAVID JACOBS AND HIS YOUNGER BROTHER LES JOIN THE NEWIES JACK NOTICES DAVID’S INTELLIGENCE AND LES’S REMARKABLE CUTENESS AND SELF- SERVINGLY TAKES THEM UNDER HIS WING. UNLIKE MOST OF THE NEWIES , DAVID AND LES ARE NOT ORPHANS OR RUNAWAYS THEY HAVE A HOME AND FAMILY, AND GO TO WORK IN ORDER TO HELP THEIR FAMILY GET BACK ON THEIR FEET FINANCIALLY AS THEIR FATHER WAS FIRED FROM HIS FACTORY JOB DUE TO AN INJURY. JACK INVITED TO THE JACOB’S HOME FOR DINNER WJERE HE BECOMES ENAMORD WITH THEIR SISTER SARAH. LATER JACK LAMENTS HIS ISOLTION DUE TO LACKING A FAMILY OF HIS OWN HE FANTIZES ABOUT TRAVILNG TO NEW MEXICO ABOUT WHITCH HE HAS HEARD MANY ROMANTIC STORIES ( SANTA FE) ATTEMPING TO OUTDO HIS BUSINESS RIVL WILLAM RANDOLPH HEARST. NEW YORK PUBLISHER JOSEPH PLUZIER RAISES THE PRICES THAT THE NEWIES MUST PAY TO BUY NEWSPAPER FOR HIS DISTRIBUTION CENTERS. ANGERED JACK AND DAVID ENCOURGE THE OTHER MANNHATTEN NEWIES TO GO ON STRIKE ( THE WORLD WILL KNOW WHILE THE OTHERS SPREAD THE WORD TO THE NEWIES IN NEW YORKS OTHER BOROUGHS JACK AND LES COFRONT PLUZIER AND ARE THROWN OUT OF HIS OFFICE . BRYAN DENTON A REPORTER FOR THE SUN TAKES IN INTEREST IN THE BOYS STORY JACK AND DAVID TAKE THEIR CAUSE TO THE BROOKLYN NEWIES , BUT THEIR LEADER SPOT COLON IS RELUCTENT TO JOIN THE STRIKE . THIS DEJECTS THE MANHATTEN NEWIES BUT DAVID RILES THEM UP ( SEIZE THE DAY) AS RESULT THEY AMBUSH THE DISTRUBIONS CENTER AND DISTROY ALL THE NEWSPAPERS NEWIE CRUTCHIE IS CAPTURED BY PLUZIER’S ENFORCERS , THE DELANCY BROTHER’S AND PLACED IN AN ORPHANGE AND JUVNIAL DETECION CENTER CALLED REFUGE RUN BY THE SCETCHY WARDEN SNYDER WHO NELECTS THE ORPANS SO THAT HE CAN ENBEZLE IN MONEY GIVEN TO HIM BY THE CITY FOR THEIR CARE NEWIES TRY TO WARD OFF STRIKEBREAKERS. JACK HAS BREAKFAST WITH SARA ON THE ROOF OF JACOBS APARTMENT HE TELLS HER OF HIS DISRE TO FLEE TO SANTA FE AND WONERS IF SHE WILL MISS HIM ROOSVELT HAS SNYDER ARESTED , RELEASES THE CHILDREN FROM REUGEE AND THAKS JACK FOR ALTERTING HIM TO THE SITUTION HE OFFERS JACK A RIDE AND JACK ASKS TO BE TAKEN TO THE TRAINYARDS SO HE CAN HEAD TO SANTA FE THE NEWIES ARE DISHEARTED BY THIS BUT JACK RETURNS SHROTLY HAVING BEEN CONVISED BY ROOSVELT THAT HE STILL HAS THINGS TO ACLOMLISH IN NEW YORK AS THE NEWIES CELEBRATE HIS RETURN SARAH AND JACK KISS AND SPOT GETS A RIDE BACK TO BROOKYLN FROM ROOSVELT I REALLY LOVE THE SONG SEIZE THE DAY