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Renowned editor Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth) develops a friendship with author Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) while working on the writer's manuscripts.
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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.
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.
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- 2016-06-10
Jun 9, 2016 · Set mainly in a picturesquely brown and smoky Manhattan in the 1930s, it gives the buddy-movie treatment to that wild-man novelist Thomas Wolfe and his buttoned-up red-penciler Maxwell Perkins.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 52% based on 111 reviews and an average rating of 5.90/10. The site's critical consensus reads, " Genius seeks to honor worthy subjects, yet never gets close enough to the titular quality to make watching worth the effort". [8]
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