1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
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Gary Oldman
Herman Mankiewicz
Amanda Seyfried
Marion Davies
Lily Collins
Rita Alexander
Arliss Howard
Louis B. Mayer
Tom Pelphrey
Joseph Mankiewicz
Sam Troughton
John Houseman
Ferdinand Kingsley
Irving Thalberg
Tuppence Middleton
Sara Mankiewicz
Tom Burke
Orson Welles
Joseph Cross
Charles Lederer
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