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Dec 9, 2009 · The impersonation of Welles by Christian McKay in “Me and Orson Welles” is the centerpiece of the film, and from it, all else flows. We can almost accept that this is the Great Man. Twenty-four years after his death at 70, Welles is more than ever a Great Man.
What makes Me and Orson Welles uniquely interesting to scholars of American drama is that Mr. Linklater's design team found the Gaiety Theatre on the Isle of Man. This house closely resembles the old Comedy Theatre on 41st Street, which was torn down five years after Julius Caesar opened there.
Nov 24, 2009 · The action in “Me and Orson Welles” takes place in 1937 during a single hectic week bookended by two moments of relative tranquillity in which a boy (Zac Efron) meets a girl (Zoe Kazan).
- Richard Linklater
Me and Orson Welles: Directed by Richard Linklater. With Christian McKay, Zac Efron, Zoe Kazan, Megan Maczko. In 1937, a teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar", directed by a young Orson Welles.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Richard Linklater
- 2009-12-18
Apr 10, 2012 · Claire Danes is the ambitious older woman who fascinates Efron’s green young man and allows him to bed her before moving off to catch more valuable fish in the shape of Welles himself and the...
Nov 20, 2009 · Kimberly Reed’s recent “Prodigal Sons” is a dysfunctional-family documentary with one stranger-than-fiction twist: Ms. Reed’s unstable adopted brother learns that he is the grandson of Welles and...
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Nov 24, 2009 · Based on Robert Kaplow's carefully researched novel, the screenplay (by Holly Gent Palmo and Vince Palmo Jr.) follows the fictional Richard as a chance street encounter with Welles (played by the...
