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Me and Orson Welles (2008)
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Ratings: 6.8/10 from 5,123 users
Metascore:
73/100
Reviews: 59 user | 147 critic | 30 from Metacritic.com A teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar" directed by a young Orson Welles in 1937. Director:Richard Linklater |
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
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Evelyn Allen
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Alessandro Giuggioli | ... |
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Thomas Arnold | ... |
George Duthie
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Martin Gabel
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Joe Holland
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Storyline
In November 1937, high school student and aspiring thespian Richard Samuels takes a day trip into New York City. There, he meets and begins a casual friendship with Gretta Adler, their friendship based on a shared love and goal of a profession in the creative arts. But also on this trip, Richard stumbles across the Mercury Theatre and meets Orson Welles, who, based on an impromptu audition, offers Richard an acting job as Lucius in his modern retelling of Julius Caesar, which includes such stalwart Mercury Theatre players as Joseph Cotten and George Coulouris. Despite others with official roles as producer John Houseman, this production belongs to Welles, the unofficial/official dictator. In other words, whatever Welles wants, the cast and crew better deliver. These requests include everything, even those of a sexual nature. Welles does not believe in conventions and will do whatever he wants... Written by Huggo
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Én és Orson Welles See more »Box Office
Budget:
$25,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$63,638 (USA) (29 November 2009) (4 Screens)Gross:
$1,186,957 (USA) (21 February 2010)Company Credits
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Dr. Mewling: By the year of 1592, Shakespeare was already an actor, and a playwright. Records of how his stage career began have not survived. We do know that in 1594 he joined a theater troupe. Called... anyone remember? Not everyone at once now. The Lord Chamberlain's Men.
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The part of Lucius in "Julius Caesar" that was played by the character Richard Samuels in the film was actually played on the production's opening night by an actor named Arthur Anderson, who was making his Broadway debut. Anderson is best known as the voice of Lucky the Leprechaun, the mascot of General Mills' Lucky Charms cereal, a part he played for 29 years. See more »Goofs
Continuity: When Orson and Richard go to the dressing room to check on George Coulouris, as they turn the corner, Orson is in a suit. When we see them complete the turn in the next shot, Orson has on a black trench coat. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Dr. Mewling: By the year of 1592, Shakespeare was already an actor, and a playwright. Records of how his stage career began have not survived. We do know that in 1594 he joined a theater troupe. Called... anyone remember? Not everyone at once now. The Lord Chamberlain's Men.
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