

“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.
Director: Michael Grandage
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Colin Firth
Max Perkins

Jude Law
Thomas Wolfe

Nicole Kidman
Aline Bernstein

Laura Linney
Louise Saunders

Guy Pearce
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dominic West
Ernest Hemingway

Vanessa Kirby
Zelda Fitzgerald

Demetri Goritsas
John Wheelock
Harry Attwell
Assistant Editor

Angela Ashton
Bertha Perkins
Eve Bracken
Zippy Perkins

Gillian Hanna
Julia Wolfe

Corey Johnson
John Wheelock

Miquel Brown
Eleanor, Perkins' Maid

Rosy Benjamin
Scribner's Staff

Elaine Caulfield
Mabel Wolfe
Richard Dempsey
Director
Katya Watson
Jane Perkins
Lorna Doherty
Peggy Perkins
Makenna McBrierty
Nancy Perkins

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