The Cat's Meow

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thiago S @Thiagostone May 14 Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom See more Amanda B. @Amanda719 Nov 2 I really liked it. Thought it stayed true to the story- or at least the theory of what happened. Thought it was cast very well. See more K S @UpstateTeacher 01/08/2025 Although some audience reviews pan the style of the performances or even the original story, we found both to be spot-on for the era. These years really were packed with scandalous stories about the rich and famous. The time wasn't called "the roaring 20s" for nothing, you know? It also helps to remember that Hurst and Davies were the center of CITIZEN KANE, as well. These people were that rich, that famous, and that able to escape comeuppance because of it. Which . . . kinda sounds like now, actually. Anyway, direction was great, costuming was glorious, and the script was bitingly sharp. Thumbs up! See more Merrick S @RT51542740 11/23/2024 Enjoyable romp aboard WR Hearst's fabulous yacht, a wild party with dance, affairs, business plots . . . and murder. Great cast--Edward Herrmann delivers a towering performance as Hearst, Eddie Izzard is a winsome Chaplin. Dunst sparkles. Joanne Lumley is superb in a small part. Very tasty, can't go wrong with this one. See more Cat C @RT52476148 09/16/2023 Love Love LOVE this movie ~ it truly IS the Cat's Meow! ~ How is anyone first drawn to a film? I liked thLoe main promo pic as it looked like a fun film about the 1920s, my favorite decade, promised cool costumes and was available on Netflix. And the title's straight out of the 20's meaning "Something or someone highly enjoyable, desirable, or impressive, especially in a fancy or elaborate way." But after the first 10 minutes starting with Al Jolson's Avalon and Joanna Lumley's mysterious introduction I knew this was something special and as the film unfolded I loved it more and more. The cast was fascinating and Lumley's Elinor Glyn, Kirsten Dunst as Marion Davies, Edward Herrmann a W,R, Hearst, Eddie Izzard's Charlie Chaplin, Cary Elwes as Thomas Ince and Jennifer Tilly's Louella Parsons all jumped off the screen and into my head and heart. The sets, costumes, music and dancing are totally fun and fabulous1920s. But there's a lot more going on that IS fabulous but definitely NOT fun! I won't reveal the plot but will say the brilliant script is based on "a semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathered aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924" This unique movie is a treat in SO many ways. See more david f @dfulmer 05/30/2022 Sometimes period films suffer from an overenthusiastic theatricality among the cast, I think particularly with these Roaring Twenties movies. This film is very dramatic and very melodramatic, and everyone's sort of hamming it up a lot. It was a bit much. Also, I wish they'd gotten someone more believable to play Charlie Chaplin. I did like some of the reflective and witty comments made about Hollywood and its culture and some of the theatricality wasn't off-putting but overall this was a stagey soap opera. See more Read all reviews

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