![Laura Linney](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/6I31xZxo9Hq6T0OhSwCUjHd8jkB.jpg)
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.