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Release Date:
3 DECEMBER 2009 (Greece)
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All's fair in love and theater
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A teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar" directed by a young Orson Welles in 1937. | add synopsis
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A whirlwind week in the life of Richard Samuels (Zac Efron)....
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Zac Efron | ... | Richard Samuels (Lucius) |
 | Claire Danes | ... | Sonja Jones |
 | Christian McKay | ... | Orson Welles (Brutus) |
 | Ben Chaplin | ... | George Coulouris (Mark Antony) |
 | Zoe Kazan | ... | Gretta Adler |
 | Eddie Marsan | ... | John Houseman |
 | Kelly Reilly | ... | Muriel Brassler (Portia) |
 | James Tupper | ... | Joseph Cotten (Publius) |
| Leo Bill | ... | Norman Lloyd (Cinna the Poet) |
| Al Weaver | ... | Sam Leve |
| Iain McKee | ... | Vakhtangov |
| Simon Lee Phillips | ... | Walter Ash |
| Simon Nehan | ... | Joe Holland (Julius Caesar) |
| Imogen Poots | ... | Lorelei Lathrop |
 | Patrick Kennedy | ... | Grover Burgess (Ligarius) |
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Rated PG-13 for sexual references and smoking.
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114 min | Canada:107 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Ireland:12A |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #44819) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario)
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Featured in "This Morning: (2009-11-19)" (2009)
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I expected this film to be a slight disappointment, but I was quite wrong about that!! The reason I was worried was Zac Efron. I'm a huge fan of Orson Welles and got very excited when I heard a film about the Caesar production was being made, but I thought this was too big a step for Efron. However he proved himself more than capable, and gives a very strong performance as Richard Samuels - a teenager who finds romance everywhere in life and yearns to act in bigger productions than school plays... who chances on Orson Welles and manages to talk/sing his way into Caesar.
Christain Mckay's performance as Orson Welles is equally impressive, as is Clare Danes as the ambitious yet charming Sonya Jones, and what's more the period (1930s New York) is captured brilliantly in the film, with great attention paid to language, location and costume.
In short: very, VERY entertaining and should appeal to a wide demographic - including Zac fans and doubters alike!!