Genius

Genius

★ 6.5IMDb Score
Released:2016-06-10
Duration:104 min
Director:Michael Grandage
Actors:Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce
Production:Pinewood Pictures, Desert Wolf Productions, Michael Grandage Company, Riverstone Pictures, Summit Entertainment

Overview:

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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