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Mank

Summary: 1930s Hollywood is re-evaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane (1941).

Release Date: December 04, 2020

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Director: David Fincher

Writer: Jack Fincher

Runtime: 2 h 11 min

MPAA: R

Production: Blue Light, Flying Studio, Netflix Studios

Country: United States

Language: English

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1930s 1940s 43 year old 43 year old man 55 year old 55 year old man academy award academy awards ceremony actor actress alcoholic alcoholic writer ambulance america the brautiful the song aunt nephew relationship award acceptance speech back scratcher balloon barn based on true story beach ben hecht character betting betting on an election biltmore hotel los angeles binocular vision binoculars birthday birthday cake birthday party black and white broken leg brother brother relationship bullet burned at the stake cabana california california gubernatorial election california politics car accident cedric gibbons character champagne character name as title charles lederer character charles macarthur character charlie chaplin character chauffeur cigar smoking cigarette lighter cigarette smoking cinema history circus costume citizen kane contract convertible costume party cribbage dancer dancing david o. selznick character democracy demonstration dictation dinner party double or nothing bet drink drinking drinking from a bottle dropping a handkerchief drunken rant drunkenness eddie cantor character ekehant ice sculpture election elephant ends with freeze frame ends with text englishwoman abroad englishwoman in america eulogy f word fake newsreel fan the person father son relationship female secretary film crew film director film history film industry film producer film set film studio film studio head filming a movie filmmaking fireplace flash forward flashback flower covered coffin flyswatter freeze frame friend friendship funeral gate guard george s. kaufman character german german nurse german refugee getting someone's name wrong giraffe gossip great depression hangover heavy drinking hip flask historical drama hobo hollywood california hollywoodland sign hospital hugging one's friend husband wife dance husband wife relationship ice sculpture idealism irving thalberg character jazz music jew jewish john gilbert character john houseman character josef von sternberg character joseph l. mankiewicz character jumping into a limousine kiss knocked to the ground knocking on a door latin leg in a cast letter lie limousine lionel barrymore character listening to a radio listening to music loneliness long suffering wife los angeles california louis b. mayer character maid male vomits man slaps a man man uses a cane man uses crutches man wears an undershirt man wears eyeglasses man wears sunglasses marion davies character megaphone men's bathroom metro goldwyn mayer microphone mistress mojave desert monkey montage mother son relationship movie camera movie industry movie projector movie studio name calling newspaper newspaper headline nickname nickname as title nightclub nonlinear timeline norma shearer character notebook nurse oem offscreen car crash offscreen suicide older husband younger wife relationship orson welles character oscar statuette parable parasol parkinson's disease party pasadena freeway califirnia pay cut pay phone picnic basket pistol platonic love affair politics poverty private zoo protest ranch reading a poem reference to adolf hitler reference to benito mussolini reference to berlin germany reference to betty boop reference to blaise pascal reference to captain ahab reference to clara bow reference to desdemona reference to don quixote reference to dulcinea reference to elizabeth barrett browning reference to elmer gantry the novel reference to emil jannings reference to f. scott fitzgerald reference to faust reference to frank merriam reference to frankenstein reference to franklin d. roosevelt reference to george bernard shaw reference to groucho marx reference to heart of darkness reference to hedda hopper reference to herman mankiewicz reference to iago reference to irving thalberg reference to joseph conrad reference to joseph goebbels reference to king kong reference to leo the lion reference to lon chaney reference to london england reference to louella parsons reference to lowell thomas reference to marie antoinette reference to mary pickford reference to mervyn leroy reference to miguel de cervantes reference to moby dick the novel reference to modern screen the magazine reference to moro bay california reference to nelson algren reference to orson welles reference to parkinson's disease reference to philip marlowe reference to samuel goldwyn reference to sancho panza reference to selznick international studios reference to shakespeare's king lear reference to shakespeare's macbeth reference to shakespeare's othello reference to the brown derby reference to the gunfight at the o.k. corral reference to the marx brothers reference to the wolfman reference to thomas jefferson reference to universal pictures reference to upton sinclair reference to voodoo macbeth the theatre production reference to w. c. fields reference to wallace beery reference to walter winchell reference to warner bros. studio reference to wild man of borneo the play reference to william shakespeare reference to wolfman republican party rko radio pictures ruining someone's party running running man s. j. perelman character san simeon california santa barbara california scene during opening credits screen writers guild screenwriter seconal second wife secretary security guard showbiz drama singer singing sled sleeping slipping a mickey smashing a bottle smoking tobacco socialism song speech statue studio commisary studio lot subjective camera suicidal thoughts telegram telephone telephone call timeframe 1930s timeframe 1940s title spoken by character trocadero nightclub hollywood california typewriter typist umbrella united states upton sinclair character usa venetian blinds victorville california water fountain wealth what happened to epilogue william randolph hearst character woman wears sunglasses writer writing writing appearing on screen xenophobia year 1930 year 1933 year 1934 year 1936 year 1937 year 1940 year 1941 year 1942 younger version of character

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