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Me and Orson Welles (PG-13)

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Me and Orson Welles
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RELEASE DATE
11-25-2009

RUN TIME
107 min

MPAA RATING
(PG-13), for sexual references and smoking

GENRE
Drama

STARRING
Ben Chaplin, Claire Danes, Zac Efron, Zoe Kazan, Eddie Marsan

DIRECTOR(S)
Richard Linklater

PRODUCER(S)

WRITER(S)
Holly Gent Palmo, Robert Kaplow

DISTRIBUTOR
Freestyle Releasing

SYNOPSIS

In a whirlwind week in 1937 in New York City, a young aspiring actor named Richard is thrown into the middle of Orson Welles Mercury Theatre Company on the eve of the opening of Welles historic staging of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. During this week he will find romance with a worldly older woman, becomes immersed in a creative experience few are afforded and learn the downside of crossing the imperious, brilliant Welles. Richard is about to grow up fast.