Genius
(2016) - 115 min - PG13
Based on the real life of Max Perkins, the Scribner editor who brought out Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe, the author. Stream or buy the DVD by clicking the link below
Actors
Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman Laurey LinneyGenre
Drama, History- Eye Candy
Chief Chick Comments
Colin Firth shines, almost always with his hat on, as Max Perkins, the editor who first published F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway for Scribner's. Jude Law is the bigger than life Thomas Wolfe who came to Perkins attention after being rejected by all the other New York publishers. Wolfe is passionate and completely self-focused. He lives with Aline Bernstein, a married Broadway set designer, a few years older who believes in him and supports him while he writes his extremely long books. Look Homeward Angel was fairly long before Perkins and Wolfe worked to get it ready for publication, but Of Time and the River started as 5,000 pages! Perhaps the story is a bit long, but the relationship is very interesting as Perkins, at one point, virtually abandons his family of a wife and 5 daughters, to work with Wolfe on his second book. I enjoyed it, but it is a bit of a "thinking" film.
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