Phonies! Movies Inspired by J.D. Salinger

top 10 J. D. Salinger movies
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Dead Poets Society, 1989
An homage to Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield, Dead Poets Society explores Salinger's themes of discovering oneself through writing and literature and the challenge of escaping conformism, set at a familiarly snooty 1950s prep school.

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