The Cat's Meow

Inspired by a real-life skeleton in Hollywood's closet, this solid account of the death of pioneering producer Thomas Ince (Cary Elwes) during a yacht party hosted by aging media mogul William Randolph Hearst (Edward Hermann) rehashes a scandal so old it's new again. Was Ince really felled by an attack of "acute indigestion," as contemporary news accounts had it, or did a rich man get away with murder? November 1924: Hearst and his youthful mistress, actress Marion Davies (Kirsten Dunst), throw a swanky soiree aboard Hearst's luxurious Oneida. The guest list includes English expatriate novelist Elinor Glyn (Joanna Lumley), who coined the term "It Girl" and ter...