Movie #808 "Salinger" is a good documentary on the elusive Mr. Salinger. My one complaint is that it is tooooo long, for a documentary (runs two hours), so it lost me in the middle, somewhat, but it has a nice opening ------and you can tell great care and creativity has gone into the making of it ---- for example, when J.D.'s folks are being introduced, someone is free hand drawing them on paper ---cool idea. The last 30 minutes really drew me in --------it really seemed to get to the nitty gritty and the purpose of the whole documentary, but the middle was a tad too long. I've never been much of a fan of his work, but I found the investigative reporting on his hermitic life very intriguing, and if you are either a fan of his work or of investigative reporting, you might like this , too. Good, solid documentary, and I can't wait until 2015 to start to see what Mr. Salinger was working on all those years!
Salinger2013PG-13 I would rate this 3.5 stars out of 5.
Interviews with 150 of J.D. Salinger's friends and colleagues shed light on the reclusive author in this absorbing documentary. High-profile writers and actors, including Martin Sheen, Gore Vidal and John Cusack, discuss how Salinger influenced them.
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