All Genres:
Drama
Release Year: 2008
Country: UK | USA
Runtime: 114 min | Canada:107 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
Languages: English
Director:
Tagline: All's fair in love and theater
Writers: Holly Gent Palmo (screenplay) Robert Kaplow (novel)
Cast: Zac Efron … Richard Samuels (Lucius)
Claire Danes … Sonja Jones
Christian McKay … Orson Welles (Brutus)
Ben Chaplin … George Coulouris (Mark Antony)
Zoe Kazan … Gretta Adler
Eddie Marsan … John Houseman
Kelly Reilly … Muriel Brassler (Portia)
James Tupper … Joseph Cotten (Publius)
Leo Bill … Norman Lloyd (Cinna the Poet)
Al Weaver … Sam Leve
Iain McKee … Vakhtangov
Simon Lee Phillips … Walter Ash
Simon Nehan … Joe Holland (Julius Caesar)
Imogen Poots … Lorelei Lathrop
Patrick Kennedy … Grover Burgess (Ligarius)
Plot: A teenager is cast in the Mercury Theatre production of “Julius Caesar” directed by a young Orson Welles in 1937.
Awards: Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations