Me and Orson Welles
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Zac Efron, Christian McKay, Claire Danes, Ben Chaplin

This movie was almost a documentary because Christian McKay played the part of Orson Welles so well. Just add in Zac Efron and it becomes a movie, not a documentary, for two reasons. One: His character was not a real person and two: nobody in the 1930's could sing as well as he did. You see all the smoke around the city. If it was me, I would be coughing all over the place. Me and Orson Welles is about a seventeen year old boy named Richard Samuels (Efron) who lands a part as Lucius in the Orson Welles (McKay) production Julius Caesar. The movie deals with mainly Orson Welles and what it was like to work with him and how brilliant he actually was. Now, this was a limited release film. So this movie probably will not get much notice from anyone except critics, like myself, but I wish it would. Mostly because Christian McKay was so brilliant as Orson Welles. While he will not get an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor, he will get one in my book as one of the better performances of 2009. Also, I don't understand why Zac Efron needs to sink in every movie he is in. They need to put him in a different role.

Rating: 4

Matt

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