
Feature film — 2016
Genius (2016)
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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A high-signal pick with 738 votes.
Pinewood Pictures / Desert Wolf Productions / Michael Grandage Company / Riverstone Pictures / Summit Entertainment
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Director: Michael Grandage
On screen
Cast & crew

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
Harry Attwell
Assistant Editor

Angela Sant'Albano
Bertha Perkins
Eve Bracken
Zippy Perkins
Gillian Hanna
Julia Wolfe
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