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Cast

Taylor Schilling
as Dagny Taggart

Grant Bowler
as Henry Rearden

Matthew Marsden
as James Taggart

Edi Gathegi
as Eddie Willers

Paul Johansson
as John Galt

Jsu Garcia
as Francisco D'Anconia

Graham Beckel
as Ellis Wyatt

Jon Polito
as Orren Boyle

Patrick Fischler
as Paul Larkin

Rebecca Wisocky
as Lillian Rearden

Michael Lerner
as Wesley Mouch

Neil Barry
as Philip Rearden

Christina Pickles
as Mother Rearden

Joel McKinnon Miller
as Herbert Mowen

Armin Shimerman
as Dr. Potter

Navid Negahban
as Dr. Robert Stadler

Armin Shimmerman
as Dr. Potter

Craig Tsuyumine
as Reporter #1

Steven Chester Prince
as Engineer

Annabelle Gurwitch
as Reporter #2

Jan Morris
as Denise Greco

Ethan Cohn
as Owen Kellogg

Christopher Mur
as Marco Ramirez

Jack Milo
as Richard McNamara

Matt O'Toole
as Brenden Brady

David Goryl
as Jay Knight

Nikki Klecha
as Gwen Ives

Daisy McCrackin
as Clerk

David Doty
as Mayor Bascom

Rob Brownstein
as Eugene Lawson

Sylva Kelegian
as Ivy Starnes

June Squibb
as Mrs. Hastings

Michael O'Keefe
as Hugh Akston

Mercedes Connor
as Cherryl Brooks

Josephine Rene
as Waitress

Olivia Presley
as Waitress

Clay Bunker
as NNT Reporter

January Welsh
as Reporter

Latasha Muhammad
as Reporter

Frank Cassavetes
as Diner Bum

Maia Tarin
as Joy

Geoffrey Pierson
as Michael "Midas" Mulligan

Derric Nugent
as Fire Chief

Jeff Cockey
as Bartender

Travis Seaborn
as Bartender

Marissa Welsh
as Ballroom Dancer

Ron Provencal
as Ballroom Dancer

Christopher Karl Johnson
as Senator at Press Conference

Katherine M. O'Connor
as Senator at Press Conference

Kim Swennen
as Newscaster 1

Mel Fair
as Newscaster 2

Mandy June Turpin
as Newscaster 3

David Sabee

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Audience Reviews for Atlas Shrugged: Part I

• Jun 29, 2014

  Finally, someone actually made the adaptation of Atlas Shrugged come true. The first part of Atlas Shrugged consists of the 10 chapters from part 1 of the book, we are introduced to Dagny Taggart the savvy headstrong businesswoman who struggles to overcome the regulations from the government (and her own brother) to maintain the family business in railroad company, she saw the opportunity to revive the company through the use of a new type of steel invented by Henry "Hank" Rearden to lay the tracks. Despite the public tried to do everything to stop her, she held on to her belief and it was a success. She then discovered a revolutionary motor which could convert static electricity to kinetic energy along with Hank, but the motor was incomplete and abandoned by the inventor. As she tried to track down the inventor, government moves closer and closer to destroy her. I was thrilled to see this film as I've read the book and regarding it as one of the highest achievements in human history, but the film simply did not live up to the standard I expected nor as the standard of the book. The script did not come even close to what the book has written, yeh I was excited to hear the dialogues that followed the lines from the book but they were slightly altered for the sake of the less intelligent; the film was really rushed that it missed out a lot of the important details from the book. I mean, how can you transform 300 pages of words into a movie that only last 102 minutes? Even Dead Until Dark was adapted to 12 hours of True Blood and it was only 292 pages long. The film only covered the surface of the novel without going into the theories of Objectivism, Ayn Rand would be so mad if she was alive today and saw the film (as she did with The Fountainhead) The best part of the film was the casting, each character was exactly as what I would imagine for them to look like (except Hank would is blond in the book) Taylor Schilling was simply divine, I wouldn't find anyone else to play Dagny than her, she did a marvelous job. Grant Bowler was perfect too! (Kiwi pride) but the best casting award has to go to Rebecca Wisocky, she was perfect to play Hank's devious moocher wife. The main theme was great, it gave me the chills. The set design was simply yet great, extremely dystopian yet balanced out the limitation of having such a low budget. Overall, ambitious yet felt short.
  

  Sylvester K Super Reviewer
• Jun 25, 2013

  Interesting. Slightly confusing. Apparently, a continuing saga...
  Cynthia S Super Reviewer
• Dec 29, 2012

  "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1" starts on September 2, 2016 with the derailment of a train on a critical stretch of track in Colorado that is going to delay gas shipments to the east coast for at least a couple of weeks. Making matters worse is that the steel shipment that Taggart Transcontinental so badly needs to effect repairs has already been back ordered for two months. So, Dagny Taggart(Taylor Schilling) overrides her brother James(Matthew Marsden) by going with an untested process that Henry Rearden(Grant Bowler) has developed. His being flush with business does not mean his wife(Rebecca Wisocky) has to like the bracelet he made for her, however. Admittedly, I am a sucker for dystopias, especially those where the main form of transportation is via train. And "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1" does use that plot device to neatly update from the past to the current near future. Weirdly enough, this political movie is set at the time of a Presidential election(my money is on Cuomo vs. Christie, by the way) without mentioning one at all, taking the easy route to try to implicate Obama in all of the world's sins. For the record, regulation is meant to save business from its worst impulses, like insuring that tracks are replaced more often than once a hundred years, even as I think regulating the size of soft drinks is more than a little silly. If only shaky politics were the worst of this movie's sins, it would not be so bad, but alas it is, seeped in talky amateurism and animatronic acting that includes even the veteran character actors in the cast.
  Walter M Super Reviewer
• May 06, 2012

  I've never read the book but I had some concept of what this was about. It left me a little bit confused and hanging at the end.
  Ida K Super Reviewer

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