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| Director: | 
Richard Linklater |  | 
Writer: | 
Holly Gent Palmo, Robert Kaplow, Vincent Palmo Jr. |  | 
Starring: | 
Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay, Ben Chaplin |  | 
Released: | 
July 29, 2010 |  | 
Rating: | 
 
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Runtime: | 
114 minutes
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Websites: | 
 
 
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Story: | 
Set in 1937, the story centres on a high school student (Zac Efron) who, while 
strolling the streets of New York, happens upon the yet-to-open Mercury Theatre 
and is noticed by its mercurial founder, Orson Welles. The man lands a bit part 
in Julius Caesar, the production that catapulted Welles to the top, and spends 
the next week learning about life and love.
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Cast: | 
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Zac Efron
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Richard Samuels (Lucius) |  | 
Claire Danes
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Sonja Jones |  | 
Christian McKay
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Orson Welles (Brutus) |  | 
Ben Chaplin
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George Coulouris (Mark Antony) |  | 
Zoe Kazan
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Gretta Adler |  | 
Eddie Marsan
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John Houseman |  | 
Kelly Reilly
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Muriel Brassler (Portia) |  | 
James Tupper
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Joseph Cotten (Publius) |  | 
Leo Bill
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Norman Lloyd (Cinna the Poet) |  | 
Al Weaver
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Sam Leve |  | 
Iain McKee
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Vakhtangov |  | 
Simon Lee Phillips
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Walter Ash |  | 
Simon Nehan
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Joe Holland (Julius Caesar) |  | 
Imogen Poots
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Lorelei Lathrop |  | 
Patrick Kennedy
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Grover Burgess (Ligarius) |  | 
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