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Me and Orson Welles

Runtme 124 minutes

(Mild coarse language and sexual references)

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Based on the novel by Robert Kaplow, RIchard Linklater's ME AND ORSON WELLES is a romantic, coming-of-age story about a teenager who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as it's being re-imagined by a brilliant young director named Orson Welles.

New York, November, 1937: Seventeen-year-old high school student Richard (Zac Efron) spends his days dreaming of the bright lights of Broadway. One day he happens upon Mr. Welles (Christian Mckay in a towering performance) out the front of the fledgling Mercury Theatre. Richard impresses Welles with an impromptu audition and lands an unpaid bit-part. He is taught the ropes by a beautiful, ambitious production assistant, Sonja (Claire Danes), whom he quickly falls for.

Despite the chaotic rehearsals and Welles’s notorious artistic temperament, Richard relishes his exciting new life as an actor, but he's soon to learn the hard way that all's fair in love and theatre, especially when Orson Welles is around.

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