Coming Through the Rye

  • Drama
10/13/2016
97
PG-13

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Coming Through the Rye, set in 1969, is a touching coming of age story of sensitive, 16 year old Jamie Schwartz, who is not the most popular kid at his all boys' boarding school. Disconnected from students and teachers, he believes he is destined to play Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye, and has adapted the book as a play.

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  • Wuchak

    Finding the reclusive author of Catcher in the Rye in 1969

    In 1969 a persecuted prep school student in Pennsylvania (Alex Wolff) runs away to find the author of Catcher in the Rye in the hills of New Hampshire to get his permission to produce a play based on his classic novel. Stefania LaVie Owen is on hand as the girl from a nearby school whom he travels with while Chris Cooper plays the curmudgeonly recluse J.D. Salinger.

    "Coming through the Rye" (2015) is a coming-of-age drama based on a true story. Being set in an all-male boarding school with sequences involving a female school, you cant help but compare it with Dead Poets Society (1989). While its not great like that movie, its quite good. Theyre really not that similar i...

    March 29, 2019

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