Orson Welles (Liev Schreiber) comes to Hollywood at 24 hailed as a boy genius after 'World of the Worlds'. He is struggling to come up with his first feature film with RKO studio head George Schaefer (Roy Scheider) and screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (John Malkovich). He goes to a dinner party hosted by William Randolph Hearst (James Cromwell) and Marion Davies (Melanie Griffith) at Hearst Castle. He creates 'Citizen Kane'. Hearst aims to destroy the movie. This is a fascinating subject for a TV movie. Schreiber is great and quite frankly, so is everybody else in this movie. I just find it so interesting as a film fan to see an interpretation of the behind-the-scenes story.
Review of RKO 281
