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News: Movies with a twang
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee Movie Critic
"The Cat's Meow" is fascinating -- not so much for what happens on screen but for the complex meaning it all must have for its director, Peter Bogdanovich. He makes a well-deserved comeback with this fine period piece about Hollywood during the Roaring '20s. ...
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
The film is darkly atmospheric, with Herrmann quietly suggesting the sadness and obsession beneath Hearst's forced avuncular chortles. Dunst is as good, in her way, as Dorothy Comingore in "Citizen Kane" in showing a woman who is more loyal and affectionate than her lover deserves. ...
Chris Hewitt
St. Paul Pioneer Press
"Cat's Meow," based on legendary rumors, seems to have been conceived as a "Gosford Park"-style all-star affair, but it has only one actual star, maybe 1 1Ž2, so most of the characters aren't bold enough to register. ...
Lawrence Toppman
The Charlotte Observer
The 19-year-old Dunst is miscast, both too clearly a child of the '90s and so young that Hearst seems almost a pervert. (He'd have been 61, she nearly 28.) Her casting seems to be an especially misguided attempt to attract audiences under 20, whose snoring would resound around the room. ...
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Cat's Meow
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(2002)
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Overview:
From the play by award-winning writer Steven Peros and director Peter Bogdanovich ("The Last Picture Show," "The Mask"), comes this look at a fateful excursion of "fun and frolic" aboard William Randolph Hearst's private yacht in November 1924. The trip brought together some of the century's best known personalities of the day and resulted in a still-unsolved, hushed-up killing.
Starring:
Kirsten Dunst, Edward Herrmann, Eddie Izzard, Cary Elwes, Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Tilly
Directed by:
Peter Bogdanovich
Written by:
Steve Peros (Screenplay adapted from his play)
Cinematographer:
Bruno Delbonnel
Studio:
Lions Gate Films
Release Date:
April 26, 2002
MPAA Rating:
(PG-13) - for sexuality, a scene of violence and brief drug use
Running Time:
110 minutes
Websites:
Official Site
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