

06/09/2013
An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), who lived most of his life behind the impenetrable wall of a self-imposed seclusion: how his dramatic experiences during World War II influenced his life and work, his relationships with very young women, his obsessive writing methods, his many literary secrets.

Michael Mcdermott
as Self - Photojournalist

A. E. Hotchner
as Self - Writer

Jean Miller
as Self - Salinger's Friend

Gore Vidal
as Self - Writer

Tom Wolfe
as Self - Writer

John Guare
as Self - Playwright

Philip Seymour Hoffman
as Self - Actor

Martin Sheen
as Self - Actor

Harvey Jason
as Self - Rare Bookseller

Paul Alexander
as Self - Salinger's Biographer

Richard Stayton
as Self - Book Editor

Robert Towne
as Self - Screenwriter

A. Scott Berg
as Self - Writer

Michael Clarkson
as Self - Salinger's Fan

E. L. Doctorow
as Self - Writer

David Shields
as Self - Salinger's Biographer

Don Congdon
as Self - Book Editor

Leila Hadley Luce
as Self - Salinger's Friend

Ben Yagoda
as Self - New Yorker Biographer

John Unrue
as Self - Salinger's Biographer

Jay Neugeboren
as Self - Writer

Thomas Kunkel
as Self - New Yorker Biographer

Jane Scovell
as Self - O. O'Neill's Biographer

Mark Howland
as Self - Teacher

David Roderick
as Self - D-Day Veteran

Alex Kershaw
as Self - War Historian

John Fitzgerald
as Self - Son of P. Fitzgerald, CIC

Sean Hemingway
as Self - E. Hemingway's Grandson

Ethel Nelson
as Self - Salinger's Friend

Jonathan Schwartz
as Self - Writer

David Victor Harris
as Self - L. Fosburgh's Widower

Jack Wenke
as Self - Writer

Deborah Dash Moore
as Self - War Historian

Elizabeth Frank
as Self - Writer

Robert Abzug
as Self - Holocaust Historian

Eberhard Alsen
as Self - Writer

Michael Silverblatt
as Self - Literary Critic

John Romano
as Self - Screenwriter

David Huddle
as Self - Writer

Phoebe Hoban
as Self - Writer

Himan Brown
as Self - TV Producer

John Leggett
as Self - Writer

Edward Norton
as Self - Actor

Marc Weingarten
as Self - Writer

Geraldine McGowan
as Self - Writer

John Cusack
as Self - Actor

Judd Apatow
as Self - Filmmaker

Ved Mehta
as Self - Writer

Glenn Gordon Caron
as Self - Writer

Tony Bill
as Self - Filmmaker

Ted Russell
as Self - Photographer

Chris Kubica
as Self - Writer

Joyce Maynard
as Self - Writer

Stephen Spiro
as Self - NYPD Officer

Fred Fogo
as Self - Writer

Jay Martin
as Self - Pyschologist

J. Reid Meloy
as Self - Forensic Psychologist

Jon Wiener
as Self - Historian

Stephen J. Whitfield
as Self - Historian

Betty Eppes
as Self - Journalist

Stephen Adly Guirgis
as Self - Playwright

Lawrence Grobel
as Self - Writer

Chad Reingold
as Self - Writer

Robert Boyton
as Self - Journalist

Todd Lewis Brandenburg
as J. D. Salinger

Alexa Ryan
as Drama Reconstruction Player

Julie Warnock
as Drama Reconstruction Player

Anthony Savini
as Bob Giroux

Alex Bergman
as The Imaginary Friend

Zoe Vela Page
as Drama Reconstruction Player

Werner Kleeman
as Self - Salinger's Friend (archive footage)

Oona O'Neill
as Self (archive footage)

J. D. Salinger
as Self - Writer (archive footage)

Ernest Hemingway
as Self - Writer (archive footage)

William Maxwell
as Self - New Yorker Editor (archive footage)

Samuel Goldwyn
as Self - Film Producer (archive footage)

Margaret Salinger
as Self - Salinger's Daughter (archive footage)

Mark David Chapman
as Self (archive footage)

John Lennon
as Self - Musician (archive footage)

Marcia Clark
as Self - Former Deputy DA (archive footage)
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