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Me and Orson Welles
Directed by
Richard Linklater
PG-13
2008
1h 54m
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6.7
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In 1937, a teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar", directed by a young Orson Welles.
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Cast of Me and Orson Welles
Zac Efron
Richard Samuels
Christian McKay
Orson Welles
Claire Danes
Sonja Jones
Ben Chaplin
George Coulouris
Zoe Kazan
Gretta Alder
Eddie Marsan
John Houseman
Kelly Reilly
Muriel Brassler
James Tupper
Joseph Cotten
Leo Bill
Norman Lloyd
Patrick Kennedy
Grover Burgess
Aidan McArdle
Martin Gabel
Al Weaver
Sam Leve
Thomas Arnold
George Duthie
Megan Maczko
Evelyn Allen
Jo McInnes
Jeannie Rosenthal
Iain McKee
Vakhtangov
Simon Nehan
Joe Holland
Travis Oliver
John Hoyt
Simon Lee Phillips
Walter Ash
Daniel Tuite
William Mowry
Imogen Poots
Lorelei Lathrop
Saskia Reeves
Barbara Luddy
Shane James Bordas
Conspirator
Alessandro Giuggioli
Conspirator
Harry Macqueen
Conspirator
Rhodri Orders
Conspirator
Michael J. McEvoy
Epstein
Garrick Hagon
Dr. Mewling
Aaron Brown
Longchamps Kid #1
Emily Allen
Virginia Welles
David Garbutt
Mercury French Horn Player
Jay Irving
Mercury Percussion Player
Steven Parry
Mercury Trumpet Player
Marlene Sidaway
Grandmother Samuels
Robert Wilfort
Radio Director
Michael Brandon
Les Tremayne
Nathan Osgood
Radio Announcer
Janie Dee
Mrs. Samuels
Eddi Reader
Singer
Jools Holland
Band Leader
Gilson Lavis
Drummer
Dave Swift
Double Bass
Mark Flanagan
Guitar
Fayyaz Virji
Trombone
Michael Rose
Tenor Sax
Phil Veacock
Alto Sax & Clarinet
Nick Lunt
Baritone Sax
Jason McDermid
Trumpet
John Young
Longchamps Kid #2
Greg Bennett
Hobo
Cris Blanco
Museum Patron (uncredited)
Lexie Lambert
Lizzy (uncredited)
John Patten
Theatre Owner (uncredited)
Chris Wilson
Studion Foley Artist (uncredited)
Me and Orson Welles Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Linklater keeps everything bouncing along, in sepia light and roar-of-the-greasepaint dust, giving us a little lesson in theater history along with an appealing coming-of-age tale.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
The most resonant voice belongs to Welles, or rather to McKay, who uncannily channels the charm, ego and flim-flammery of the man who would soon move to Hollywood to direct and star in Citizen Kane.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Linklater's film adaptation succeeds in bringing the flamboyant Welles to life, without resorting to caricature (although a few vintage Al Hirschfelds adorn the walls).
Detroit News
Tom Long
A thoroughly enjoyable film that wraps a coming-of-age story around the portrait of a genius.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
I forgot that I was looking at an actor. I really believed I was looking at Welles.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
I've seen plenty of great impersonations of Orson Welles and yet I've never seen any of them come remotely close to this.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Linklater has crafted an always genial and at times even joyful period charmer about that moment on the cusp: before a boy becomes a man and another man becomes a mythological figure.
Film Comment Magazine
Nicolas Rapold
This deceptively modest movie is smartly not a curated compilation of Wellesiana, but rather a warmly observed look at the theater and those souls who live for the arts.
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.
Movie Retriever
Brian Tallerico
A film that nearly everyone will enjoy on their own terms but it's also surprisingly bland considering the larger-than-life personality that gives it half a title.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It's an open question as to who, outside theater geeks, will find this inside-baseball approach quite as fascinating as Linklater apparently does.
The Simon
Tim Grierson
It's a fun, smart movie about artistic aspirations, but its worthiness stems from Christian McKay's terrific performance.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
A real charmer, Me and Orson Welles is the work of a director who takes nostalgia, romantic possibility and the theater seriously, without being a pill about it.
Newsweek
Jeremy McCarter
Welles comes off as an imperious, duplicitous, philandering brat. But he's also funny, seductive, and ingenious.
Beliefnet
Nell Minow
Efron turns out to be a real star, with enormous screen charisma that works well for the character; he turns out to be a real actor, too, very much part of an ensemble.
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?
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.
At the Movies
A.O. Scott
You feel a little bit what it was like to sit in that theater on opening night. You also feel like what it was and what it still is to be a young person infatuated with writing, with art, with theater...
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Efron's fix on the period suggests a GPS struggling in a low-signal area, and the movie becomes an affectionate, name-dropping exercise in historical mutilation.
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