Inside the Dramatic True Story Behind Mank and the Battle for the Soul of Citizen Kane
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Clocking in at 131 minutes,
David Fincher's black and white homage to old Hollywood focuses on the 60 days given to the brilliant, often besotted and infamously prickly scribe
Herman J. Mankiewicz to churn out the script for
Orson Welles' feature directorial debut. Those scenes of genius at war with itself are interspersed with behind-the-scenes studio politicking, actual politicking (left vs. right is not new) and Mankiewicz's conflicted friendship with
Marion Davies, the longtime companion of publishing titan
William Randolph Hearst, who was the fairly obvious inspiration for the character of Charles Foster Kane.