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Citizen Kane
“Some called him a hero...others called him a heel.”
8.0 / 10• 1941• 1h 59m•NR• English
MysteryDrama
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Orson Welles
Charles Foster Kane
Lead
Joseph Cotten
Jedediah Leland
Dorothy Comingore
Susan Alexander Kane
Ray Collins
Jim W. Gettys
George Coulouris
Walter Parks Thatcher
Agnes Moorehead
Mary Kane
Paul Stewart
Raymond
Ruth Warrick
Emily Norton Kane
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Orson Welles's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Citizen Kane is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
