In February 2019, I watched Rabel in the Rye at Shinjuku Cinema Qualite, a theater in Tokyo. The lead looked familiar, so I checked him on the internet after watching it. Then, he turned out to have been the child actor playing the sassy Marcus in About a Boy. Time flies!
In March 2020, I watched it again on DVD.
The movie is based on the book J. D. Salinger: A Life written by Kenneth Slawenski in 2012 and it describes half the life of the writer J. D. Salinger who is the author of The Catcher in the Rye which I want to read someday.
The film was basically serious but kind of casual and it was really good. Nicholas Hoult had played a brat in About a Boy, had grown up and gave a wonderful performance as the suffering Salinger in it. Although Kevin Spacey appeared, too, yet I could not stop smiling wryly at him because he reminded me of his scandal. He got what he deserved, anyway.
I want to watch it again in some years and am planning to read The Catcher in the Rye before watching it.
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