Genius

Movie

2016

1h 44m

PG-13

English

History, Drama

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6.3

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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 disc...

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Genius

PG-13

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2016

1h 44m

English

History, Drama

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Cast

Max Perkins

Thomas Wolfe

Aline Bernstein

Louise Saunders

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ernest Hemingway

Zelda Fitzgerald

John Wheelock

Assistant Editor

Bertha Perkins

Zippy Perkins

Julia Wolfe

John Wheelock

Eleanor, Perkins' Maid

Scribner's Staff

Mabel Wolfe

Director

Jane Perkins

Peggy Perkins

Nancy Perkins

Miss Wyckoff

James, Mailroom Clerk

David Altaner

Scribner's Staff

Charles Dinsdale

Scribner's Staff

Erick Hayden

Scribner's Staff

Directed By: Michael Grandage

Written By: John Logan (Screenplay), A. Scott Berg (Novel)

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Panagiotis M. Papatheodorou says...

8 years ago

Prout to be from Britain with such a nice british cast. Congrats to Colin Firth, Jude Law and Nicole Kidman for their staggering perfomance. The plot is driven throughout the entirety of the movie beautifully. In addition, there is a lot of character development especially between Tom and Max. A must-watch for everyone that loves this genre of films. Rather disappointed because I feel that the average rating on IMDB and here is quite low. 10/10 for me.

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Bradym03 says...

3 years ago

Genius is a very slow paste, dull and a pretty forgettable film, but it's only worth watching just for Colin Firth and Jude Law. Those two can't do wrong.

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Lee Brown Barrow says...

6 years ago

Not quite the work of genius I hoped it was going to be. Still, it's a reasonably interesting tale, for once taking away some of the attention afforded our literary greats - Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, E.L. James (okay, scrub the last one) - and turning some of the film's focus to Max Perkins, the often unrecognized publisher who helped bring some classic works of literature to public attention.

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buddhalou says...

6 years ago

Not as good as I wanted it to be when it came out, but not as bad as many of the reviews. A solid 'fair'...

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CinemaSerf

2 months ago

This is one of Jude Law's better characterisations as he plays troubled writer Thomas Wolfe. His almost biblical tomes don't exactly excite most literary agents but the well established Max Perkins (Colin Firth) bucks that trend by giving him a chance. Now there are some editorial caveats to this co More

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JPRetana

2 years ago

The genius of Genius is that, although it revolves around the publication of Thomas Wolfe’s novels Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, it’s not a film about writing but about editing; accordingly, editor Max Perkins (Colin Firth) is devoted as much time and importance as is Wolfe (Ju More

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Reno

6 years ago

**Behind a great writer, there's a genius editor!**

I felt the title 'Genius' was not appropriate for how the story revolved in the film. It was more like a commitment and priority given to those undertaking than any other stuffs and that's why it looked like a genius from others eyes. Though I w More

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