Based on events in the life of the Emmy Award-Winning filmmaker Jim Sadwith, “Coming Through The Rye” is the story of Jamie Schwartz (Alex Wolff), a sometimes hapless 16 yr old who wants desperately to be a worldly adolescent. Unhappy at his all-boys boarding school, his life raft is the belief that he will someday play Holden Caulfield, the complex and alienated main character from “The Catcher in the Rye,” on Broadway and in the movies. Jamie adapts the novel as a play and runs away with a local girl to the mountains of New Hampshire to find the book’s notoriously reclusive author, JD Salinger (Academy Award-Winner Chris Cooper). Their odyssey and the events that follow are a journey into unchartered territory of friendship, sexual awakening, love and loss.
Starring Academy Award-Winner Chris Cooper as J.D. Salinger, Alex Wolff (TV’s “The Naked Brother Band,” “The Sitter,” Peter Berg’s upcoming “Patriot’s Day”) and Stefania Owen (upcoming Hulu series “Chance” with Hugh Laurie, TV’s “The Carrie Diaries,” “All We Had”).
Written & directed by Jim Sadwith (HBO’s “In Treatment”).
In theaters October 14th
