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Me and Orson Welles
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 17 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Holly Gent Palmo
Vincent Palmo Jr.
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Release Date:
Theatrical: November 25, 2009
Running Time: 114 minutes, Color
Origin: Uk
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for sexual references and smoking
Starring Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay, Ben Chaplin, Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan, Leo Bill, and Imogen Poots
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. (Freestyle Releasing)
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What The Critics Said
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Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
One of the sweetest and most heartfelt movies ever made about a life in the theater.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
Art is a fairy tale we choose to believe in, and this movie, a fiction confected about real people, is too good not to be true.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
This is a movie of great spirit and considerable charm. It’s about the giddiness of promise--the awakening of young talent, after years of the Depression, to a moment when anything seems possible.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Designed primarily for those who are intrigued by theater, curious about Welles, or some combination of both.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
What do you say about a movie that proves Zac Efron can act, introduces a master thespian in Christian McKay and launches a charm assault that is damn near irresistible? I say, see it.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Me and Orson Welles is, in effect, a sequel to Tim Robbins' star-filled, self-important film about "Cradle," but it's far lighter on its feet.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Christian McKay's impersonation of young Orson Welles is sensational in this enjoyable, though slight, historical fiction about a teen who spends a memorable week with the legendary wonder.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
There are moments, especially when Welles is alternating between acting as Brutus and directing everyone else, that it’s possible to forget you’re watching an actor and really believe you’re beholding Orson Welles at work.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
McKay, a British stage actor who was doing an off-Broadway production about the movie legend when casting started, and Danes, whose acting always seems so effortlessly good, are the best things about the film.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
A sweet, modest snapshot of a long-lost time when a bold kid with a showbiz dream and a little luck could actually get somewhere, and if he could sing and dance to boot, his chances of success would be even greater. Zac Efron fits right into 1937; in 2009, he's a lost boy.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Has so little fire that Welles himself would have wondered out loud what he was doing stuck in the middle of it.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
McKay's performance is a revelation. He nails Welles' imperiousness, charm and vocal cadences, and even bears a strong resemblance to the iconic actor/director. He is thoroughly convincing as Welles and electrifies the screen when he's on it.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Joshua Rothkopf
Maybe this is a good time to mention that the director is Richard Linklater, usually a lot more versatile. Try to imagine a version of Linklater’s "School of Rock" that didn’t pivot on the manic music teacher played by Jack Black but instead, perhaps, on his boring roommate.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Surprisingly conventional by director Richard Linklater's standards, this pleasant, low-key dramedy is most memorable for the discovery of co-star Christian McKay.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Mr. McKay is in his mid-30s, and doesn't conceal it, so what's the point? By taking the KIND out of WUNERKIND, the movie also removes the WUNDER.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Efron has yet to learn that smiling pretty is merely a component of acting, not its entirety. He makes for a supremely passive lead whose chemistry with Danes is nonexistent.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
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