Me and Orson Welles

After a talented, 17-year-old high school student (Zac Efron) in New York City lands a part with other actors (Ben Chaplin, James Tupper, Leo Bill, Kelly Reilly, Simon Nehan, Thomas Arnold, et al.) with fragile egos in an off-Broadway play Caesar in a modern-interpretation of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in 1937 in this engaging, well-acted, coming-of-age story, he finds himself at odds with the egotistical, brilliant, cigar-smoking director Orson Welles (Christian McKay), who has a pregnant wife (Emily Allen), when he falls for an ambitious, comely assistant (Claire Danes) at the Mercury Theater.
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