A small but revealing inside look at Orson Welles at the crisis of his life and the inside story of glamorous 1930's Broadway.
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Me and Orson Welles (2009)
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Reviews Counted:42
Fresh:34
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.9/10
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Nov 25, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $85,422
Synopsis: ME AND ORSON WELLES, Richard Linklater's new coming of age feature set in 1937 stars Disney teen throb Zac Efron, star of High School Musical, who stretches himself as an actor playing the young... [More]
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Reviews for Me and Orson Welles
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...
11/30/09
Top CriticThe film’s a valentine to the theater, but its portrait of Welles is not without an edge.
11/30/09
Top CriticIt's no Citizen Kane, and it won't change your life. But it's a well-told story, and sometimes that's enough.
11/30/09
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?
11/29/09
Top CriticEfron'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.
11/29/09
Top CriticThis is a film that will delight those who, like me, exult in hesternal excitements, a brilliant recreation of Welles in 1937 highlighted by terrific music.
11/29/09
Thoroughly engaging, witty, charming and delightful. Christian McKay delivers a brilliant, utterly captivating and Oscar-worthy performance as Orson Welles.
11/29/09
An agreeable divertissement, easy to take--and equally easy to forget.
11/28/09
Breezy period film not meant for tween Zac Efron fans.
11/25/09
The story of a teenager's sometimes uncomfortable brush with greatness, it is necessary viewing for anyone whose imagination has been seduced by the charms of art.
11/25/09
Top CriticIt is pleasant enough and will provide an education to any of Efron’s young fans who do turn up, but McKay’s stellar turn deserves something much more substantial than this trifling bonbon.
11/25/09
One of the best pictures about the stage in recent memory.
11/25/09
Top CriticDeft, affectionate, and unexpectedly enjoyable.
11/25/09
Top CriticSurprisingly conventional by director Richard Linklater's standards, this pleasant, low-key dramedy is most memorable for the discovery of co-star Christian McKay.
11/25/09
Top CriticWelles is brilliantly embodied by Christian McKay in one of those, hey-who's-that? performances that tends to draw Oscar talk, even if the film itself isn't much more than an extremely pleasant lark.
11/25/09
Top CriticTry 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. That’s what you have here.
11/25/09
Brought to vibrant life by a superb performance from Christian McKay as Orson Welles
11/25/09
Christian McKay's performance is an extraordinary immersion that rivals the legendary portrayals of icons in movies past.
11/25/09
It's worth sitting through Efron's vacant performance to get to the meat of McKay's performance.
11/24/09
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