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Genius is a 2016 biographical drama film directed by Michael Grandage and written by John Logan, based on the 1978 National Book Award -winner Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg. The film stars Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Dominic West, and Guy Pearce. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 66th ...
- $5.7 million
- Adam Cork
- $17 million
Jun 10, 2016 · Genius: Directed by Michael Grandage. With Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney. A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
- Boblipton
- 2 min
- Michael Grandage
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Jun 10, 2016 · The movie “Genius,” directed by Michael Grandage from a script by John Logan, does not lack for those. The central figure, though, is not a writer but an editor, the real-life Maxwell Perkins, a man whose most pronounced eccentricity, it seems, involved almost never taking his hat off. “Genius” is the story of book man Perkins, friend ...
Jun 10, 2016 · Anna Leszkiewicz New Statesman Genius ends up being terrifically boring, while enthusiastically reproducing the creative hierarchies of the time it portrays. Aug 25, 2016 Full Review Roxana Hadadi ...
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- Michael Grandage
- PG-13
- Colin Firth
Feb 16, 2016 · Michael Grandage’s debut film, on Thomas Wolfe and his literary editor Maxwell Perkins, is hammily acted, overstylised and lacking in subtlety Henry Barnes Tue 16 Feb 2016 08.18 EST Last ...
Summaries. A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others. When, one day in 1929, writer Thomas Wolfe decided to keep the appointment made by Max Perkins, editor at Scribner's, he had no illusions: his manuscript would be turned down as ...