Genius (2016)
Rating: 6.5/10
Duration: 104 min
Director(s): Michael Grandage,
Description:
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
- Jude Law as Thomas Wolfe
- Dominic West as Ernest Hemingway
- Laura Linney as Louise Saunders
- Nicole Kidman as Aline Bernstein
- Guy Pearce as F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Vanessa Kirby as Zelda Fitzgerald
- Corey Johnson as John Wheelock
- Colin Firth as Max Perkins
- Gillian Hanna as Julia Wolfe
- Demetri Goritsas as John Wheelock
- Harry Attwell as Assistant Editor
- Angela Ashton as Bertha Perkins
- Eve Bracken as Zippy Perkins
- Miquel Brown as Eleanor, Perkins' Maid
- Rosy Benjamin as Scribner's Staff