Mank

[Netflix Only] David Fincher's complex, confusing, criticality acclaimed, Oscar-nominated, black-and-white, factually inspired, well-acted, but lackluster, star-studded (Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Charles Dance, Bill Nye, Arliss Howard, Sam Troughton, Tuppence Middleton, and Joseph Cross), 131-minute, 2020 film told in flashbacks in which director Orson Welles (Tom Burke) hires talented, alcoholic, witty scriptwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) who is recovering from a broken leg after a car accident and proceeds to self destruct due to his drinking as he begins to write the screenplay for Citizen Kane in 1940 while associating with Hollywood notables such as George S. Kaufman, Greta Garbo, Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Norma Shearer, Charlie Chaplin, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Eddie Cantor, Carole Lombard, and Darryl F. Zanuck.
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