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Rebel in the Rye
Directed by
Danny Strong
PG-13
2017
1h 46m
Drama
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Biography
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and more
6.7
28%
64%
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The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, "The Catcher in the Rye".
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Cast of Rebel in the Rye
Nicholas Hoult
J.D. Salinger
Kevin Spacey
Whit Burnett
Victor Garber
Sol Salinger
Hope Davis
Miriam
Zoey Deutch
Oona O'Neill
Lucy Boynton
Claire Douglas
Brian d'Arcy James
Giroux
Eric Bogosian
Harold Ross
Bernard White
Swami Nikhilananda
Jefferson Mays
William Maxwell
Will Rogers
Herb Kaufman
Sarah Paulson
Dorothy Olding
James Urbaniak
Gus Lobrano
Caitlin Mehner
Blythe Chaucer
Anna Bullard
Sylvia Welter
Keenan Jolliff
Clay Miller
Kristine Froseth
Shirley Blaney
Adam Busch
Nigel Bench
David Berman
Dr. Samuel Bater
Amy Rutberg
Betsy Hopper
Evan Hall
Rory Johnson
Jimmy Smagula
John Woodburn
Celeste Arias
Doris Salinger
Alyssa May Gold
Pearl
Francesca Root-Dodson
Carol Flourentine
Dana Drori
Stacey Pierce
Jenny Ashman
Bee Stein
Naian González Norvind
Queen's girl
Karen Walsh Rullman
Real Estate Agent
Nikolaos Argyros
Solider (uncredited)
Devin Harjes
Catcher Fan
Danny Strong
Director / Writer / Producer
Kenneth Slawenski
Writer
Thad Luckinbill
Producer
Molly Smith
Producer
Trent Luckinbill
Producer
Jason Shuman
Producer
Bruce Cohen
Producer
Rebel in the Rye Ratings & Reviews
Slant Magazine
Carson Lund
Danny Strong's film suggests dramatic Tetris, and it leeches J.D. Salinger and his process of any mystery.
Chesapeake Family Magazine
Roxana Hadadi
Nicholas Hoult leads a stacked cast in the biopic Rebel in the Rye, but the movie doesn't reveal much that isn't already known about the legendary J. D. Salinger.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
With Rebel in the Rye, we get a solid, well-acted and basically standard biopic.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
It's not without its charms and solid observations about the perils and passions of the writerly life, but it's too blunt, too neat, and entirely too starry-eyed about both the creator and his creation.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
If Jones doesn't quite pull it off, it is at least a film of many pleasures and a thought-provoking look at American literature's most famous loner.
Observer
Rex Reed
You do see how Salinger's own words, thoughts and actions were reflected in the character of Holden.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
J.D. Salinger had three great losses and three great teachers, and "Rebel in the Rye" is the story of how those all came together.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Fatally, the movie fails to convey the sympathy and imagination of Salinger's prose-instead characters simply state over and over again how brilliant he is.
Truthdig
Carrie Rickey
The first half of the film is emotionally engaging, its second half slack, and on the whole the film is singularly un-cinematic.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
This is a movie that Holden would have skipped.
Washington Post
Pat Padua
It's hard to imagine a film more inaptly named. As a movie, this "Rebel" is, as it turns out, terribly by the book.
Austin Chronicle
Danielle White
There are subtle, artful pieces of dialogue which allude to the deeper stuff, but you'd have to be a Salinger scholar to catch them. The whole deal plays right into the famous tight-lipped mystique. And it's really a bit of a bore.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
You realize the director has bought into the myth along with everyone else, to the point where he thinks the life itself is all the story you need. That's not art, that's worship, and it's what sent J.D. Salinger heading for the hills in the first place.
Arizona Republic
Barbara VanDenburgh
A collective of narrative and stylistic cliches, "Rebel in the Rye" is lousy with hagiography, stripping Salinger of any danger, allure or mystery, and making him instead just another insufferable poet-philosopher in your MFA class.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Even its title feels kind of off-brand, as if chosen for alliteration rather than art or sense.
The Atlantic
David Sims
Holden would certainly not approve of this film, one that crams an author's mysterious and fascinating legacy into the most basic of biopic formulas. I can't imagine many viewers will, either.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Fagerholm
A feature-length biopic that appears to be comprised of half-realized highlights from a television miniseries.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
It's ironic that Salinger, who loved movies but refused to have his books sold to Hollywood, should now be the subject of a movie he would in all likelihood disdain.
TheWrap
Robert Abele
It's tempting to wonder how Strong - who, as a screenwriter, so expertly distilled a pair of wild and woolly presidential campaigns into "Recount" and "Game Change" - honestly thought he could get away with his graceless, tell-not-show dramatic tactics.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
The journey of J.D. Salinger from young wiseacre to world-celebrated author and notorious recluse is absorbingly traced in Danny Strong's "Rebel in the Rye."
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