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Chasing Holden
2001 · Film · 102 min
Directed by Malcolm Clarke
Neil Lawrence is sent to a boarding school by his father. During the first days he meets T.J. who he falls in love with. After being assigned a paper on Holden Caulfield - the main character in J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" - Neil decides to go on a journey to meet Salinger, who he feels has played a huge role in his life. Neil & T.J. take off on a journey to New York City. A journey that leads to more then they both ever could have imagined - and changes both their lives forever.
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One of the problems is that it seems to have created a trope of "young genius author creates a single amazing work and is troubled" which is used in some dire films.
Ruby Sparks, The Vanishing of Sidney Hall, Chasing Holden, there's a bunch of them and they suck.
https://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/sidney-hall-review-sundance-logan-lerman-1201773905/