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Based in real theatrical history, Me and Orson Welles is a romantic coming-of-age story about a teenage actor who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as it's being re-imagined by a brilliant, impetuous young director named Orson Welles at his newly-founded Mercury Theater in NYC, 1937. The rollercoaster week leading up to opening night has the charismatic-but-sometimes-cruel Welles (impressive newcomer Christian McKay) staking his career on this risky production while Richard (Zac Efron) mixes with everyone from starlets to stagehands in behind-the-scenes adventures bound to change him.
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Christian McKay, Zac Efron, Claire Danes
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Boring,
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This review is from: Me and Orson Welles (DVD)
It is 1937, and high school senior Richard (Zac Efron) dreams of being an actor. A chance meeting with 22-year old Orson Welles (Christian McKay) results in a bit part in Welles' groundbreaking, modern-dress version of "Julius Caesar" soon to open on Broadway. During a week of rehearsals at the Mercury Theatre, Richard is befriended by the cast and crew including Welle's assistant, Sonja (Claire Danes) while he tries to understand his flamboyant and temperamental boss.I think this movie was meant to bring Zac Efron out of teenage musicals and into more serious roles, but it doesn't succeed. His character is bland and forgettable and he lacks charisma. His mannerisms and speech so contemporary that he looks out of place in the thirties. His love interest, played by Claire Danes, is also colorless and boring and a bit annoying. Nothing that happened to or between Richard and Sonja was interesting or memorable. On the other hand, Christian McKay looks and sounds so much like the larger-than-life Welles that one forgets he's not the real thing. Welles' arrogance and theatricality and his brilliant wit make him a dazzling, shining star and he is the entire show. The plot is tedious and, with the exception of Welles, the characters are dreary, so I recommend this movie only to fans of Welles.
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1.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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wtf,
By fawn's daddy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Me and Orson Welles (DVD)
This price is wrong, right? $969.00.I understand that there are 2 unreleased versions of the movie. Perhaps this is one of them. In one version Welles eats the entire cast 40 minutes into the movie. The other, I understand, has Zac totally nude throughout the movies. Still not worth the price. I hope you all understand hyperbole. |
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