Original, Great!

Rating: Null/10 (25 March 2003)

When famous newspaper owner Charles Foster Kane dies, his parting words are "Rosebud". A group of news men want to find out more about his life and want to know who or what Rosebud was and why was it is so important to him. The story follows a reporter who moves from place to place interviewing all the people who knew Kane to find some clues into the man's life. Very original and very well made. Orson Welles is a genius and it shows. He starred, directed, and co-wrote the story and was given final say on everything in the project. The results are a fantastic story, with truly inspirational camera angles, great acting (by an almost unknown cast), and a completely original movie that can stand the test of time. Based on the life of William Randolph Hearst. **** out of ****