Innocent BoySince we already know what kind of raging jerk-faced dirtbag Charles Kane will grow up to be, it's pretty hard to look back on his childhood and see what an innocent young scamp he once...

Just How Close Are They?Jed Leland is Charles Kane's best friend—er, coworker—er, enemy?—er, frenemy?—er, brother figure?—er, lover?—in the whole wide world. The only thing we know abou...

Thompson's role in this movie is pretty utilitarian—he's kind of like our narrator. Instead of having much of a backstory himself, he runs around trying to figure out the meaning of Kane's final...

All Susan ever wanted was to live a normal life. But that plan went totally out the window after she met Charles Kane. At first, she finds him totally charming and loving. She also has no clue who...

Walter Parks Thatcher is basically the ultimate businessman in this movie. He's everything that Charles Kane has grown to hate, the kind of dude who will always protect the interests of the wealthy...

Apart from Leland, Bernstein is Kane's biggest right-hand man. In his own words, Bernstein is with Kane from "before the beginning" and he has a front-row seat to Kane's gradual fall. When asked if...

Jim "Boss" Gettys is your typical corrupt politician. Everyone knows he's corrupt, but no one has the money or power to take him on in New York's election for governor… until Charles Foster Kane...

We don't get a whole lot of Emily Monroe Norton in this movie. We know that she's the niece of the U.S. President and that she's Charles Kane's wife. Apart from that, you can say that she's a very...

Mary only appears in one scene in this movie, and it's one of the saddest scenes we get. After falling into a huge fortune, Mary has decided that her son Charles should be raised away from her and...