Salinger (film)

Salinger is a 2013 documentary film about the reclusive writer J. D. Salinger that was directed and produced by Shane Salerno. The film tells the story of Salingers life through interviews with friends, historians, and journalists. The film premiered at the 40th annual Telluride Film Festival and had a second premiere on the opening night of the Toronto Film Festival.

According to Salerno, the project initially started as a feature film, with Daniel DayLewis as his choice to play Salinger.On January 29, 2010, the website Deadline.com first reported on the documentary, which had been kept secret for five years. Michael Fleming, the first journalist to view the film, called it arrestingly powerful and exhaustively researched. Additionally, Fleming announced that Salerno had cowritten a 700page biography on Salinger with New York Times bestselling author David Shields. On February 4, 2010, Entertainment Weekly detailed the elaborate security surrounding the film. ........

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