The read
Critics rate it 22 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 83% of the 1,953 1990s drama movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 24m.
Synopsis
In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first film.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes92%
Critics rate it 22 points higher than audiences do.
102 audience votes
Key crew
- John AltmanOriginal Music Composer
- Benjamin RossDirector
- John LoganScreenplay
Cast
- Liev SchreiberOrson Welles
- James CromwellWilliam Randolph Hearst
- Melanie GriffithMarion Davies
- John MalkovichHerman Mankiewicz
- Liam CunninghamGregg Toland
- David SuchetLouis B. Mayer
- Fiona ShawHedda Hopper
- Anastasia HilleCarole Lombard
- Brenda BlethynLouella Parsons
- Roy ScheiderGeorge Schaefer
- Roger AllamWalt Disney
- Simeon AndrewsJohn Houseman
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Themes
cinema on cinemayellow pressmovie businessbiographyantisemitismfilmmakingmovie starbased on movie1940saspiring director