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Capsule review by Mark Dujsik
Fascinating tale of
Hollywood
yore about an unsolved murder that happened on a weekend yacht trip organized
by William Randolph Hearst (Edward Herrmann), The
Cat’s Meow contains the same kind of intelligent class observation that
was featured in Gosford
Park. The script by Steven
Peros (based on his play) gleefully indulges in studying the lives and, mostly,
the affairs of some of early
Hollywood’s most prominent personalities. Fine
performances all around, particularly from Herrmann, who captures the insecurity
of one of America’s most powerful men in history, Eddie Izzard, who plays
Charlie Chaplin’s more serious, understated side, Jennifer Tilly as a bubbly
movie critic who manages to always put her foot in her mouth, and Kirsten Dunst
as Marion Davies, the ingénue. This
isn’t what really happened (no one knows for certain) but a presentation of
"the whisper told most often."
Copyright © 2002 by Mark Dujsik. All
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(for
sexuality, a scene of violence and brief drug use)