Nice effects though.

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Oh my GOD, do I love this film! I've never been so enamored and moved by Richard Linklater's work and this fabulous production that makes you want to devour the work of the ultimate genius of an actor. producer and director, Mr. Orson Welles.For those who hated the picture, they should never again to be allowed to review movies. Christian McKay was a phenomenal Orson Welles, with all the touches. From that great voice to his use of eyes, eyebrows and chutzpah. Just an amazing piece of work on his part.The story of the making of "Julius Caesar" in a scary part of history with fascism becoming almost the norm, while making incredible acting work in the major parts of John Houseman, Joseph Cotten and others with impeccable performances by those who loved the period, and the people that went with the history.Now, I have read most of these reviews, and I don't care about some of the seemingly petty mistakes made by writer and director about who did what history correctly. It doesn't matter. I will let one thing bother me, making the wonderful Norman Lloyd out to be a not so nice husband to his then newly married bride. I don't see why the writer felt the need to ad such a unnecessary touch of insult to a good man, even for a motion picture.But Mr. Lloyd did give McKay great compliments so richly deserved was a great thing.This is a movie I want to see again and again, particularly because of the not so well-groomed actors who played Orson in other films that bothered me so much at the time.Forgive me, but I really have a problem when a well known actor, President or other famous person doesn't even resemble said person. It's like telling people "You WILL believe Whoopi Goldberg is Ben Franklin" when she CAN'T be.I look forward to my next watching of this super great film.

It's 1937. On a trip to NYC, high school student Richard Samuels (Zac Efron) befriends artistic Gretta Adler (Zoe Kazan). Then he accidentally run into Orson Welles (Christian McKay) at the Mercury Theatre. Orson offers him the role of Lucius in his Julius Caesar. Orson is a dictator and Sonja Jones (Claire Danes) takes him under her wings.Zac Efron starts off completely self assured. I think it would better if he starts off unsure with Gretta and Sonja. He should be more like a green youngster that the movie wants him to start off as. He is too much of a big movie star right from the start. Other than that, these are great performances from everybody especially Christian McKay. Director Richard Linklater allows the actors to flourish in this.

During the viewing of this sweet nostalgic look at backstage life, I wondered how anybody came up with the funding for it! Nobody gets thrown out of a window, no cars explode, there are no scenes of bloody carnage, and there's not even one cute dog. But there is a romanticized slice of honest Americana, a look back at the theatre rehearsals that lead up to a revolutionary production of Julius Caesar, one directed by the 22 year old Orson Welles; framing the tale is also a coming-of-age romance between young Zac Efron and one of two young women he meets as he is hired by Welles to play a bit part in the play--for those with some knowledge of the Mercury Theatre, its fascinating to see a spot-on impersonation of young Joseph Cotten played by Joseph Tupper, but the entire joy of the film is meeting Orson himself in the person of Christian McKay, who seems imbued with the spirit of the man in an uncanny revelatory performance, worth all 107 minutes of the film. This is a film for folks interested in theatre or the cinema, and will doubtless be lost on those in search of realistic action adventures--there's just a hint of early Woody Allen in the film, too--and my hope is that someone is already looking for a another, more complex look at the Boy Genius starring McKay.

An international cast is assembled for Me And Orson Welles telling about a young aspiring actor gets a part in the Mercury Theater production of Julius Caesar while still in high school. The young man gets quite a few life lessons, most of which revolve around working with the ego of America's theatrical genius Orson Welles.This American story is in fact a British production quite frankly because those folks across the pond have far better diction than our players here for the most part. The trick for them is to get our American speech patterns down and the cast did to a remarkable degree. Christian McKay plays the imperious Orson Welles who was Lord and Master of the Mercury Theater company. McKay got the Welles character down really well so much so you think you are actually looking at a newsreel of young Welles even before he became known to the world with Citizen Kane.To insure some box office for Me And Orson Welles, Zac Efron played the aspiring Richard Samuels who with a stroke of luck gets an impromptu street audition and wins the minor role of Lucius, servant to Brutus in the Mercury Theater production of Julius Caesar. He and Welles kind of bond until of all things a woman comes between them, the ambitious Claire Danes who is looking for all kinds of help and isn't at all concerned about what she has to do to get to the top.Zac Efron is certainly trying his best to escape the restrictions that being a discovery of the Disney Studios can put on a career. He speaks his lines convincingly during the scenes of the Julius Caesar production. Later on in High School English he speaks some dialog from Julius Caesar with real conviction and the experience of a man of the world which he has become. The same might be said for Efron in his professional life.I'm sure that Zoe Kazan who plays the young woman who Zac meets in a record shop and granddaughter of Elia must have heard a lot of stories about the exciting times of the Broadway theater in the Thirties from her grandfather. She brought a lot of that to her role and turned in a winning performance.Me And Orson Welles does a splendid job in recapturing a very special era in the America of the New Deal and that a British production did it, they should rate some special kudos.