Movie
Genius
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2016-06-10
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Genres
- History, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Pinewood Pictures, Desert Wolf Productions, Michael Grandage Company, Riverstone Pictures, Summit Entertainment
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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 Ashton as Bertha Perkins
- Eve Bracken as Zippy Perkins
- Gillian Hanna as Julia Wolfe
Crew
- Michael Grandage - Director
- John Logan - Screenplay
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