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Screenplay John Logan
Director Michael Grandage

Genius

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

Release Date: 2016-06-10

Duration: 104 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Nicole Kidman
    Aline Bernstein
  • Dominic West
    Ernest Hemingway
  • Vanessa Kirby
    Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Colin Firth
    Max Perkins
  • Guy Pearce
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Jude Law
    Thomas Wolfe
  • Laura Linney
    Louise Saunders
  • Lucy Briers
    Miss Wyckoff
  • Corey Johnson
    John Wheelock
  • Jane Perry
    John Hopkins Hospital Nurse