Genius

Theatrical - Limited 2016-06-17

Cast Vanessa Kirby Jude Law Guy Pearce Nicole Kidman Colin Firth Laura Linney Dominic West
Directed by Michael Grandage
Written by John Logan

Genres: Biography Drama

JoBlo's Rating

6/10

Synopsis

A chronicle of Max Perkins’s time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.

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Review: Genius

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PLOT: The story of famed literary editor Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth) and his relationship with the brilliant, tortured Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law). REVIEW: For those not in the know, Maxwell Perkins was arguably the most important literary editor of the...

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