To bad this very good film about a young man's first experience in the theater didn't find an audience. The director Richard Linklater and his team did an excellent job recreating the New York theater scene of the late 1930's. This is a considerable achievement considering a lot of the film was shot at Pinewood studios in England.
The cast is very good particularly Christian McKay as the brilliant and flamboyant Orson Welles, trying to pull off a modern interpretation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar while juggling a wife, lovers, jittery actors and a career in radio. McKay also plays Welles as a man not lacking in an ego to put it mildly.
I suppose the subject matter was just a little to inside for the general movie going public. Still, a very good film from a director who usually takes on interesting projects.
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