Synopsis
Coming Through the Rye, set in 1969, is a touching coming of age story of sensitive, 16 year old Jamie Schwartz, who is not the most popular kid at his all boys' boarding school. Disconnected from students and teachers, he believes he is destined to play Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye, and has adapted the book as a play.
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Cast
- Alex WolffJamie Schwartz
- Stefania LaVie OwenDeedee
- Chris CooperJ.D. Salinger
- Zephyr BensonGerry Schwartz
- Adrian PasdarMr. Tierney
- Caleb EmeryBilly Campbell
- Eric NelsenTed Tyler
- Amy ParrishRobin
- Michael SiberryMr. Dewitt
- Kabby BordersMaureen
Recommendations
- 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Cooper seizes control of the movie when he’s onscreen, but the two young leads are also enormously appealing. - 80
TheWrap
Despite its missteps, Coming Through the Rye is a sweet and inviting road trip. - 75
Observer
Special praise goes to Alex Wolff as Jamie and Stefania Owen as his sympathetic, agreeable girlfriend Dee Dee, and veteran actor Chris Cooper makes a complex but astonishingly convincing cameo as the great Jerome David Salinger himself. I went to Coming Through the Rye expecting nothing and left feeling enriched, enlightened and warm all over. - 75
RogerEbert.com
Coming Through the Rye may be the closest we’ll ever get cinematically to the novel. And in being so far away from it, it’s close enough. - 70
The New York Times
As Salinger, the formidable Chris Cooper has a brief but masterly turn, sympathetically rendering the writer as a curmudgeon defending his literary offspring. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Sadwith, whose TV credits include the miniseries “Sinatra,” conjures a few memorable moments in his big-screen debut. But the most stirring moment belongs to Cooper, who turns a barely audible, exasperated sigh into a complicated life story. - 67
The Film Stage
It’s not a perfect film...but it’s one that resonates for anyone who’s ever been touched by a book, movie, painting, or song and had their world shift into something it wasn’t before. - 63
Movie Nation
Writer/director James Steven Sadwith’s autobiographical coming-of-age film doesn’t have a lot of originality to it, in spite of the nearly-unique nature of his youthful encounter with the Great Writer. But Cooper’s turn gives it weight and life.
