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Where to Watch Genius (2016)
Max Perkins discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But he never met anyone like Thomas Wolfe.
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.
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- 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