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A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.


“All's Fair in love and Theater.”
New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.

Zac Efron
Richard Samuels

Christian McKay
Orson Welles

Claire Danes
Sonja Jones

Ben Chaplin
George Coulouris

Zoe Kazan
Gretta Alder

Eddie Marsan
John Houseman

Kelly Reilly
Muriel Brassler

James Tupper
Joseph Cotten

Leo Bill
Norman Lloyd

Patrick Kennedy
Grover Burgess
Me and Orson Welles is a drama, history, comedy film released in 2008 exploring themes of new york city, based on novel or book, historical figure, 1930s. Directed by Richard Linklater, it stars Zac Efron, Christian McKay, Claire Danes. New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.
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