# Genius (2016)

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**Runtime**: 104 min
**Genres**: History, Drama
**Directed by**: Michael Grandage
**Written by**: John Logan
**Starring**: Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce, Dominic West

> *Max Perkins discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But he never met anyone like Thomas Wolfe.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Max Perkins meets The Social Network in a Manhattan editor’s office, where a thousand-page slobber of prose from an unknown writer lands on his desk. He gambles his reputation shepherding the manuscript into literature despite the author’s erratic brilliance. A forgotten typewriter keeps the pages alive.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, cerebral, tender

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