Salinger: A Life, as its chief source material. With Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, Victor Garber, Hope Davis. The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.
Ren Vieira reviews Rebel In The Rye, directed & written by Danny Strong. Starring Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, Sarah Paulson, Victor Garber, Lucy Boynton and Zoey Deutch. Rebel in the Rye attempts to dramatize J.
Read Common Sense Media's Rebel in the Rye review, age rating, and parents guide. The movie doesn't have a specific moral or judge the characters' choices. If anything, its message is that some artists have to choose between their art and the things that make most people happy. Sundance Film Review: 'Rebel in the Rye'. There may be a receptive audience for Danny Strong's watchable biopic of J. Salinger, but the author It's a myth of popular culture that J.
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Salinger hated the movies — that'd be conflating his personality with that of his most famous creation, Holden. 'Rebel in the Rye'. Given his life of intense secrecy and his small yet beloved output of work, making a bio-pic about J. Salinger was never going to be easy.
Oh sure, there are legendary stories about his early life, all of which are dutifully checked off a list here. However, not much is truly. "Rebel in the Rye" is Hollywood regular Danny Strong's feature-film directorial debut, and it fumbles for a voice in tracking the There are flashes of a tasty albeit unoriginal mentor-student dynamic before "Rebel in the Rye" neuters Spacey's ego and deadpan wit and turns him into just another sycophant. Danny Strong's directorial debut stars Nicholas Hoult as J. Salinger, in a film that misses the mark in trying to capture his unique talent.