Movie Details
Me and Orson Welles (PG-13)
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11-25-2009
107 min
(PG-13), for sexual references and smoking
Drama
Ben Chaplin, Claire Danes, Zac Efron, Zoe Kazan, Eddie Marsan
Richard Linklater
Holly Gent Palmo, Robert Kaplow
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.