1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Gary Oldman
as Herman Mankiewicz
Amanda Seyfried
as Marion Davies
Lily Collins
as Rita Alexander
Arliss Howard
as Louis B. Mayer
Tom Pelphrey
as Joseph Mankiewicz
Sam Troughton
as John Houseman
Ferdinand Kingsley
as Irving Thalberg
Tuppence Middleton
as Sara Mankiewicz
Tom Burke
as Orson Welles
Joseph Cross
as Charles Lederer
Jamie McShane
as Shelly Metcalf
Toby Leonard Moore
as David O. Selznick