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You can watch Genius (2016) on Kanopy with a participating library card.
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.
An editor's career hinges on whether a massive, chaotic manuscript is a brilliant breakthrough or mere nonsense. This period drama captures the fragile friction between a mentor's intuition and an unproven writer's raw ego.
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Michael Grandage
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Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce, Dominic West, Vanessa Kirby, Demetri Goritsas, Harry Attwell, Angela Sant'Albano
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Genius
You can watch Genius (2016) on Kanopy with a participating library card.
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6.5/10
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52%
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Director
Michael Grandage
Cast
Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce, Dominic West, Vanessa Kirby, Demetri Goritsas, Harry Attwell, Angela Sant'Albano
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