The Weinstein Company doesn’t want audiences or critics to say much about the documentary Salinger but instead let moviegoers discover Salinger’s secrets for themselves. However, the studio has released a new two-minute trailer for the film, which opens in limited release today.
Directed by Shane Salerno (writer of Savages, Aliens vs Predator: Requiem), the PG-13 film includes interviews with John Cusack, Tom Wolfe, Edward Norton, Martin Sheen, and many others.
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For more than fifty years, J.D. Salinger, the elusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, has been the subject of a relentless stream of newspaper and magazine articles as well as several biographies. Yet all of these attempts have been hampered by lack of access and the recycling of inaccurate information. Thus, Salinger has largely remained an enigma to the public and media alike.
During the nine years in which Salinger was in production – including the six years while the project was being shot under wraps – filmmaker Shane Salerno interviewed hundreds of people the world over, many of whom had previously declined to go on the record about their relationship with the iconic author.
Salerno’s much speculated-upon documentary, which has made front page news since 2010, offers direct eyewitness accounts from Salinger’s World War II brothers-in-arms, his family members, his close friends, his lovers, his classmates, his neighbors, his editors, his publishers, his New Yorker colleagues, and people with whom he had relationships that were unknown even to his own family.
Providing unparalleled access to never-before-published photographs, diaries, letters, legal records, and documents, the highly anticipated Salinger paints a definitive portrait of one of the most fascinating figures of the twentieth century. Particularly illuminating the last fifty-six years of the writer’s life-a period that, until now, had remained completely dark to biographers – Salerno has, for the first time, gotten beyond Salinger’s meticulously built-up wall.
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