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Citizen Kane (1941)

PG04/17/1941Mystery, Drama1h 59m
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Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.

Overview

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Top Billed Cast

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    Orson Welles

    Charles Foster Kane

  2. Cast 1

    Joseph Cotten

    Jedediah Leland

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    Dorothy Comingore

    Susan Alexander Kane

  4. Cast 1

    Ray Collins

    Jim W. Gettys

  5. Cast 1

    George Coulouris

    Walter Parks Thatcher

  6. Cast 1

    Agnes Moorehead

    Mary Kane

  7. Cast 1

    Paul Stewart

    Raymond

  8. Cast 1

    Ruth Warrick

    Emily Norton Kane

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    Erskine Sanford

    Herbert Carter

ctually every bit as good as it supposed to be. To anyone who likes to think they're being edgy by calling it overrated or whatever, I know you're just saying it because you think it makes you cool and counter-cultural or whatever, so I probably can't change your mind whatever I say here, but one thing anyone should try is watching all the Academy Award nominees, or at least the Best Picture nominees, from the 14th Academy Awards, in sucession, perhaps one a day. Despite only winning one award, and famously losing out on Best Picture, this film makes all the others look embarrassingly dated. E...