Movie
Genius (2016)
Max Perkins discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But he never met anyone like Thomas Wolfe.
History · Drama
Story
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 Starring: Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney
Genius Cast
- Colin Firth as Max Perkins
- Jude Law as Thomas Wolfe
- Nicole Kidman as Aline Bernstein
- Laura Linney as Louise Saunders
- Guy Pearce as F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Dominic West as Ernest Hemingway
- Vanessa Kirby as Zelda Fitzgerald
- Demetri Goritsas as John Wheelock
- Harry Attwell as Assistant Editor
- Angela Sant'Albano as Bertha Perkins
- Eve Bracken as Zippy Perkins
- Gillian Hanna as Julia Wolfe