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Genius
2016
· Movie
· 104 min
C
MEANRANK
64/100
Every rating
47–88
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 47, highest is Google on 88. Critics average 54, everyone else 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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.
Details
- Director
- Michael Grandage
- Writer
- John Logan
- Based on
- Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg
- Released
- 10 June 2016
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Box office
- $5.7M
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