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Me and Orson Welles, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ben Chaplin, Zac Efron, and Claire Danes, opened on November 25. The movie is based on Robert Kaplow’s novel Me and Orson Welles: A Novel (Find this book in our catalog).
"An irresistible romantic farce that reads like a Who's Who of the classic American theater, Me and Orson Wellesis set during the launch of the then twenty-two-year-old Orson Welles' debut production of Julius Caesar at the Mercury Theatre on Broadway. Beautifully translated to screen by Richard Linklater, the film stars Zac Efron as Richard Samuels, a stage-struck seventeen-year-old from New Jersey who wanders onto the set and accidentally gets cast in the show, forever changing his life as he becomes caught in a vortex of celebrity, ego, art, and love." (catalog summary)

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