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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

In the mid-1920s, whiz-kid producer Thomas Ince (1916's Civilization) died after a weekend on William Randolph Hearst's yacht, in such company as Hearst's actress mistress Marion Davies, comedian Charlie Chaplin, gossip columnist Louella Parsons and authoress Elinor Glyn. The Cat's Meow purports to be the story of what really happened that weekend. Boasting an outstanding cast of arthouse actors, plus mainstream-indie hopper Kirsten Dunst as Marion Davis, the film is never anything but fun to watch. It's not much more, but for film buffs, it's highly enjoyable. Dunst can be an uneven actress, but her enormous enthusiasm and over-the-top personality fits the part of a popular twenties-flapper movie star like Marion Davies perfectly. The rest of the cast is also uniformly superb.

*** out of ****

Cast
Kirsten Dunst as Marion Davies
Edward Herrmann as William Randolph Hearst
Eddie Izzard as Charlie Chaplin
Cary Elwes as Thomas Ince
Joanna Lumley as Elinor Glyn
Jennifer Tilley as Louella Parsons

Year of Release: 2001
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Availability: Video/DVD


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