Film · Drama, History
Genius (2016)
Max Perkins discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But he never met anyone like Thomas Wolfe.
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
- Writers
- John Logan, A. Scott Berg
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Release date
- June 10, 2016
Cast
Colin FirthMax Perkins
Jude LawThomas Wolfe
Nicole KidmanAline Bernstein
Laura LinneyLouise Saunders
Guy PearceF. Scott Fitzgerald
Dominic WestErnest Hemingway
Vanessa KirbyZelda Fitzgerald
Demetri GoritsasJohn Wheelock- Harry AttwellAssistant Editor
Angela Sant'AlbanoBertha Perkins- Eve BrackenZippy Perkins
- Gillian HannaJulia Wolfe
Corey JohnsonJohn Wheelock
Miquel BrownEleanor, Perkins' Maid
Rosy BenjaminScribner's Staff
Elaine CaulfieldMabel Wolfe- Richard DempseyDirector
- Katya WatsonJane Perkins
- Lorna DohertyPeggy Perkins
- Makenna McBriertyNancy Perkins
