Rebel in the Rye

Rebel in the Rye (2017) is a biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Danny Strong traces how Jerome Salinger — played by Nicholas Hoult — turned a Manhattan nobody into the voice of teenage alienation, and what it cost him. Kevin Spacey plays editor and mentor Whit Burnett, the man who first pushed Salinger to believe in his own fiction.

The war nearly finished the writer. Salinger survived multiple campaigns across Europe in the 1940s and came home carrying pages he had written in foxholes. Those pages became The Catcher in the Rye. Zoey Deutch and Hope Davis shape the women on either side of that journey, and Sarah Paulson delivers a quietly sharp supporting turn.

Based on Kenneth Slawenski's biography, the film asks what happens to an artist after the world rewards him exactly as he hoped — and then he walks away from all of it. Stream Rebel in the Rye (2017) online on iFILM.