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Audiences rate it 27 points higher than critics do. Most of the 2,022 2010s documentary movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), who lived most of his life behind the impenetrable wall of a self-imposed seclusion: how his dramatic experiences during World War II influenced his life and work, his relationships with very young women, his obsessive writing methods, his many literary secrets.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes39%
Metacritic40/100
Audiences rate it 27 points higher than critics do.
70 audience votes
Key crew
- Shane SalernoWriter
- Shane SalernoDirector
- Lorne BalfeOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Michael McdermottSelf - Photojournalist
- A. E. HotchnerSelf - Writer
- Jean MillerSelf - Salinger's Friend
- Gore VidalSelf - Writer
- Tom WolfeSelf - Writer
- John GuareSelf - Playwright
- Philip Seymour HoffmanSelf - Actor
- Martin SheenSelf - Actor
- Harvey JasonSelf - Rare Bookseller
- Paul AlexanderSelf - Salinger's Biographer
- Richard StaytonSelf - Book Editor
- Robert TowneSelf - Screenwriter
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Themes
new york citybased on novel or bookworld war iibiographyolder man younger woman relationshipdocudramatraumatic experienceportrait of an artist