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TMDb Rating
6.5/10

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Genius (2016)

HistoryDrama
104 min

"Max Perkins discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But he never met anyone like Thomas Wolfe."

Plot Summary

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.

Director

Michael Grandage

Top Cast

Colin FirthJude LawNicole KidmanLaura LinneyGuy Pearce

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