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Genius

2016Directed by Michael Grandage1h 44m

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

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.

  • History
  • Drama

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
  • Corey Johnson as John Wheelock
  • Miquel Brown as Eleanor, Perkins' Maid
  • Rosy Benjamin as Scribner's Staff
  • Elaine Caulfield as Mabel Wolfe

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