Me and Orson Welles
Tuesday January 12th 2010
Producer(s): Ann Carli, Richard Linklater, Marc Samuelson
Writer(s): Holly Gent Palmo, Robert Kaplow
Cast: Ben Chaplin, Claire Danes, Zac Efron, Zoe Kazan, Eddie Marsan, Christian McKay, Kelly Reilly, James Tupper, Thomas Arnold, Leo Bill
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 114 minutes
Website: http://www.meandorsonwellesthemovie.com/
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.
