Rebel in the Rye

Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

Set amidst the colourful backdrop of mid-20th century New York City, we follow a young J.D. Salinger as he struggles to find his voice, pursues a love affair with a famed socialite, and fight on the front-lines of World War II. It’s these experiences that will lead to the creation of his masterpiece, The Catcher in the Rye, bringing him overnight fame (and notoriety) and leading him to withdraw from the public eye for the rest of his life.

106 minutes.
No persons under 13 (Language, Violence, Drug abuse).
Biographical, Drama, Period piece, On the art circuit

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Credits

Cast	Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, Zoey Deutch, Sarah Paulson, Lucy Boynton, Victor Garber, Hope Davis, Amy Rutberg
Director	Danny Strong
Screenplay	Danny Strong, from the biography by Kenneth Slawenski
Music	Bear McCreary
Cinematography	Kramer Morgenthau
Editing	Joseph Krings
Made in	2017
Produced by	Black Label Media, West Madison Entertainment

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama, biopic
Language	Mild to moderate, infrequent
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Moderate, infrequent, physical and emotional
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None (sic)
Comments
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USA MPAA rating

PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned	ated PG-13 for some language including sexual references, brief violence, and smoking
Runtime	106
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 13 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
24.com Herman Eloff Walking out of the theatre after watching Rebel in the Rye I instantly knew I had to read Catcher again.	15
Metacritic.com 30 critics	9
Rottentomatoes critics 71 critics	10
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer	6
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	10
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Some violence and postwar trauma in whip-smart biopic.	15
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 4 users	15
Rottentomatoes users 649 users	15
IMDB 622 Netizens Unchecked Determination Corrupts	13
The Movie DB Community	16
Average .. 62%	12