Salinger is a 2013 feature length documentary looking into the private world of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.
Salinger features interviews with 150 subjects including JD Salinger’s friends, colleagues and members of his inner circle who have never spoken on the record before as well as previously unseen film footage, photographs and other material. 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.
Includes interviews with: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Edward Norton, John Cusack, Martin Sheen, Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Judd Apatow, Danny Devito and Author Elizabeth Frank.
Salinger Movie Reviews
“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.” Chicago Sun Times
“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.” 3AW
“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." Kaplan vs Kaplan