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Limited Release: Apr 12, 2002; Rated: PG-13; Length: 112 Minutes; Genres: Drama, Thriller; With: Kirsten Dunst and Cary Elwes
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By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

Director Peter Bogdanovich entertainingly reenacts a historic scandal that unfolded aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924. Hearst (Edward Herrmann), spying through his ship-floor peepholes, plays host to Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst), the movie-star mistress who obsessed him, and Charlie Chaplin (Eddie Izzard), the man he suspects she's having an affair with; also on board are producers, flappers, and Louella Parsons (Jennifer Tilly). Bogdanovich's staging is lively in a superficial way, yet The Cat's Meow has a famous-names-on-parade facileness. Herrmann gives a performance of bullyragging power.


Posted Apr 26, 2002
 

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