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Genius (2016)
Directed by Michael Grandage
“Max Perkins discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But he never met anyone like Thomas Wolfe.”
History, Drama · 1h 44m
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.
Cast
Colin Firth
Max Perkins
Jude Law
Thomas Wolfe
Nicole Kidman
Aline Bernstein
Laura Linney
Louise Saunders
Guy Pearce
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dominic West
Ernest Hemingway
Vanessa Kirby
Zelda Fitzgerald
Demetri Goritsas
John Wheelock
H
Harry Attwell
Assistant Editor
Angela Sant'Albano
Bertha Perkins
E
Eve Bracken
Zippy Perkins
G
Gillian Hanna
Julia Wolfe
Crew
- Director
- Michael Grandage
- Screenplay
- John Logan
- Novel
- A. Scott Berg
- Director of Photography
- Ben Davis
- Original Music Composer
- Adam Cork
- Editor
- Chris Dickens
- Producer
- James Bierman, Michael Grandage, John Logan, Tracey Seaward
Details
- Release date
- 2016-06-10
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- History, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Production
- Pinewood Pictures, Desert Wolf Productions, Michael Grandage Company, Riverstone Pictures, Summit Entertainment
- Box office
- $5,681,622