Genius

Genius (2016)

Max Perkins discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But he never met anyone like Thomas Wolfe.
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Genre: History, Drama
Runtime: 1hr 44min
Director: Michael Grandage

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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 discovered a literary genius.

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Colin Firth

Max Perkins

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Jude Law

Thomas Wolfe

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Nicole Kidman

Aline Bernstein

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Laura Linney

Louise Saunders

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Guy Pearce

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Dominic West

Ernest Hemingway

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Vanessa Kirby

Zelda Fitzgerald

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Demetri Goritsas

John Wheelock

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Harry Attwell

Assistant Editor

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Angela Ashton

Bertha Perkins

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Eve Bracken

Zippy Perkins

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Gillian Hanna

Julia Wolfe

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Corey Johnson

John Wheelock

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Miquel Brown

Eleanor, Perkins' Maid

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Rosy Benjamin

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Elaine Caulfield

Mabel Wolfe

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Richard Dempsey

Director

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Katya Watson

Jane Perkins

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Lorna Doherty

Peggy Perkins

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Makenna McBrierty

Nancy Perkins

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Lucy Briers

Miss Wyckoff

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Ray Strasser King

James, Mailroom Clerk

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David Altaner

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Charles Dinsdale

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Erick Hayden

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Kenneth Hazeldine

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Oliver King

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Alex Large

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Charlotte Longfield

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Nick Mercer

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Kim Rosenfeld

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James Wallace

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Katherine Kingsley

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Richard Clark

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Stella McCabe

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Christopher Oram

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Mike Vessey

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Maddie Rice

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Jamal Crawford

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Kemi Durosinmi

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Jo Dyce

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Joshua Robinson

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Andrew Byron

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Jane Perry

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James Bierman

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Trina Dillon

Effie Wolfe

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Gary Thomsett

Frank Wolfe

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Mark Phillimore

Frederick Wolfe

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