Movie Title : Salinger Release Date : Sep 6, 2013 Limited
Genre Movie :Documentary,Special Interest
Actors :J.D. Salinger,Margaret Salinger,John Cusack,Danny DeVito,Edward Norton,Martin Sheen,David Milch,Robert Towne,Tom Wolfe,E.L. Doctorow,Gore Vidal,A. Scott Berg,Judd Apatow,Philip Seymour Hoffm...,John Guare,Oona Chaplin,Jean Miller,Joyce Maynard,Stephen Adly Guirgis,Elizabeth FrankMpaa Rating : PG-13
Plot Story : SALINGER features interviews with 150 subjects including Salinger's friends, colleagues and members of his inner circle who have never spoken on the record before as well as film footage, photographs and other material that has never been seen. Additionally, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton, John Cusack, Danny DeVito, John Guare, Martin Sheen, David Milch, Robert Towne, Tom Wolfe, E.L. Doctorow, Gore Vidal and Pulitzer Prize winners A. Scott Berg and Elizabeth Frank talk about Salinger's influence on their lives, their work and the broader culture. The film is the first work to get beyond the Catcher in the Rye author's meticulously built up wall: his childhood, painstaking work methods, marriages, private world and the secrets he left behind after his death in 2010. (c) Weinstein
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Critics Ranting For Salinger : 5.3Critics Percentage For Salinger : 34 %
User Ranting Movie Salinger : 3.2
User Count Like for Salinger : 3,726
Review For Movie Salinger
What emerges is a portrait of an enigma.Soren Anderson-Seattle Times
Where Salinger succeeds is in the gripping section on World War II, and in the exquisite, often melancholy details in the stories told by the likes of Joyce Maynard.
Richard Roeper-Chicago Sun-Times
A good documentary can lead you to a place of not knowing what to believe about a subject. A bad documentary tells you what to believe, and why, but in ways provoking disbelief in the movie's tactics.
Michael Phillips-Chicago Tribune
This documentary reconstructing the life of the ultimate cult author is like a three-act thriller, and the character at the center of the story is a mute man of mystery.
Joe Williams-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
When [Salerno] drops the stylistic overkill and lets these people talk about Salinger, what emerges is a riveting picture of a contradictory, deeply selfish, troubled man.
Dave McGinn-Globe and Mail
Cataloging what's missing from Salerno's movie -- for instance, why "The Catcher in the Rye" worked, or didn't, and what it meant and still means to the American novel -- would run into the sports section.
John Anderson-Newsday
a work that Holden Caufield would describe as a phony piece of crap.
John A. Nesbit-Old School Reviews
About as complete a profile as one could reasonably wish for...a must-see for anyone with even a passing interest in the issue of how art can take on an uncontrollable life of its own.
Jim Schembri-3AW
An intriguing portrait of the reclusive genius. Very accessible.
Chris Bumbray-JoBlo's Movie Emporium
He hated being famous.
Victoria Alexander-Las Vegas Informer
Fatuous and infuriating, it's a shallow, superficial examination of a multi-layered, enigmatic author.
Susan Granger-SSG Syndicate
Buries a few nuggets in a mountain of repetition and overstatement.
Frank Swietek-One Guy's Opinion
Perpetuates a problem that the film fails to acknowledge: Artists' most devoted supporters frequently refuse to oblige their simple request to be left alone.
Matt Pais-RedEye
Salerno's depiction is intriguing and distinctly engaging.
Jeanne Kaplan-Kaplan vs. Kaplan
Whether you have read "The Catcher in the Rye" before, or forgotten what you read years ago, or never picked up the book at all, this documentary may compel you to find a copy.
David Kaplan-Kaplan vs. Kaplan
I have one thing to say to the director, "Sleep tight, ya moron!"
Tony Macklin-tonymacklin.net
If you really want to keep your relationship to Catcher in the Rye sacred, don't see this film.
Matt Kelemen-AspectRatio.us
A distractingly bombastic music design starts at a thundering pitch and has nowhere to go but further.
Marjorie Baumgarten-Austin Chronicle
Creepy hagiography, halo askew.
James Verniere-Boston Herald
The treatment of J.D. Salinger's writing in this overwrought documentary is so inflated and pompous it comes as a relief when Judd Apatow shows up to describe The Catcher in the Rye as a funny book filled with great lines.
Michael Sragow-Orange County Register
A fascinating and exhaustively researched portrait of a fascinating man.
Mike Scott-Times-Picayune
Director Salerno struggles to provide the full picture of a man who didn't want his picture taken.
Boo Allen-Denton Record Chronicle (TX)
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