Genius (2016)

Max Perkins discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But he never met anyone like Thomas Wolfe.

Movie · History, Drama · 1h 44m · Rated 6.5/10 on TMDB · Released June 10, 2016

Overview

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.

Directed by Michael Grandage

Cast

• Colin Firth as Max Perkins
• Jude Law as Thomas Wolfe
• Nicole Kidman as Aline Bernstein
• Laura Linney as Louise Saunders
• Guy Pearce as F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Dominic West as Ernest Hemingway
• Vanessa Kirby as Zelda Fitzgerald
• Demetri Goritsas as John Wheelock
• Harry Attwell as Assistant Editor
• Angela Sant'Albano as Bertha Perkins
• Eve Bracken as Zippy Perkins
• Gillian Hanna as Julia Wolfe

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