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Genius(2016)
Status: Released
Date: 2016-06-10
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713 Votes
Time: 1h 44m
Max Perkins discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But he never met anyone like Thomas Wolfe.
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United Kingdom,
United States of America
Revenue: $5,681,622.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Pinewood Pictures
Desert Wolf Productions
Michael Grandage Company
Movie: Genius
Top 10 Billed Cast
Colin Firth
Max Perkins
Jude Law
Thomas Wolfe
Nicole Kidman
Aline Bernstein
Laura Linney
Louise Saunders
Guy Pearce
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dominic West
Ernest Hemingway
Vanessa Kirby
Zelda Fitzgerald
Demetri Goritsas
John Wheelock
Angela Ashton
Bertha Perkins
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