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The Cat's Meow (2001)
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A Hollywood scandal springs to life in Peter Bogdanovich's lively Cat's Meow. In 1924 the immensely powerful publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst held a yacht party that ended with a gunshot. Between Hearst's influence and that of his glitterati guests (including Louella Parsons and Charlie Chaplin), no satisfying account of what happened ever made it to the public. The Cat's Meow reconstructs one of the more whispered-about possible scenarios and has quite a bit of fun doing so. Cast and crew alike skewer 1920s Hollywood decadence and, by extension, today's. Eddie Izzard is a boldly odd casting choice as Chaplin, but he...
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A very cool and interesting guess at what might have happened aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht during a boating party when a murder happened.
Edward Herrmann is great as the flawed and childlike Hearst who doesn't know when to trust and when to question, he is owned and betrayed by his love for Marion Davies...
(complete The Cat's Meow review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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