Movie

Newsies

“They delivered the papers, until they made the headlines...”

★ 8.0(96)20172h 14m

Newsies is available to rent or buy on Viaplay and Amazon Video in Sweden. It isn't on a subscription streaming service there yet. Availability checked 23 July 2026.

Where to watch Newsies

🇸🇪 Sweden

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Good to know

Director: Brett Sullivan
Release date: 2017-02-16
Runtime: 2h 14m
Language: English
Box office: $2,827,489
Status: Released
Country: United States of America
Studio: Steam Motion & Sound

Newsies — trailer

About Newsies

Newsies is a 2017 movie in the Music, Comedy and Drama genres, directed by Brett Sullivan, starring Jeremy Jordan, Kara Lindsay and Ben Fankhauser. It has a runtime of 2 hours 14 minutes. It holds an average rating of 8.0/10 from 96 viewers. Below you can see where to watch Newsies in Sweden — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.

Cast

Jeremy Jordan

Jack Kelly

Kara Lindsay

Katherine

Ben Fankhauser

Davey

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

Crutchie

Steve Blanchard

Joseph Pulitzer

Aisha de Haas

Medda Larkin

Ethan Steiner

Les

Tommy Bracco

Spot Conlon

Joshua Burrage

Jojo

Ben Cook

Race

Michael Dameski

Tommy Boy/Scab

Julian DeGuzman

Smalls

Themes & keywords

new york citymusicalbased on true storybased on play or musicalloveteenage girlorphanteenage boybased on moviecorrupt officialworkers unionturn of the centurystage musicalnewspaper boy19th century