Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Ben Chaplin, Christian McKay

Scripted by Holly Gent Palmo and Vince Palmo, this is based on Robert Kaplow’s novel of the same name. The coming-of-age story about a teenage actor who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as it’s being re-imagined by a brilliant, impetuous young director named Orson Welles at his newly-founded Mercury Theater in NYC, 1937. The rollercoaster week leading up to opening night has the charismatic-but-sometimes-cruel Welles (Christian McKay) staking his career on this risky production while Richard (Zac Efron) mixes with everyone from starlets to stagehands in behind-the-scenes adventures bound to change him. Claire Danes co-stars as Sonja Jones, the unapologetically ambitious assistant to Welles whom Richard tries to woo. Ben Chaplin plays Mercury Theater regular George Coulouris.  (PG-13/114 min.) 

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