There’s a reason we make movies about tempestuous artists. Their outsized and larger-than-life personalities are a…

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Cast
Colin Firth (Max Perkins)Jude Law (Thomas Wolfe)Nicole Kidman (Aline Bernstein)Laura Linney (Louise Perkins)Guy Pearce (F. Scott Fitzgerald)Dominic West (Ernest Hemingway)Vanessa Kirby (Zelda Fitzgerald)Gillian Hanna (Julia Wolfe)Angela Sant'Albano (Bertha Perkins)Eve Bracken (Zippy Perkins)Katya Watson (Jane Perkins)Lorna Doherty (Peggy Perkins)Makenna McBrierty (Nancy Perkins)Miquel Brown (Eleanor, Perkins' Maid)Corey Johnson (John Wheelock)Lucy Briers (Miss Wyckoff)Harry Attwell (Assistant Editor)Ray Strasser King (James, Mailroom Clerk)
Director
Michael Grandage
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Synopsis
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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