Genius (2016)

Name: Genius
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 2016-06-10
Duration: 104 min
Cast: Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce

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.

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Released 2016-06-10 · 104 min · History, Drama

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
Corey Johnson as John Wheelock
Miquel Brown as Eleanor, Perkins' Maid
Rosy Benjamin as Scribner's Staff