A myriad of tumors

New York in the 1930s. Publisher/editor Max Perkins is caught in the crossfire of great minds of Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. A cultural feature and literary enthusiasts suck it up like lollipop, no doubt. The cast (Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce and Dominic West) is great, but unfortunately their charisma can't quite kill the boredom.