A charming little movie. Sixteen year old Jamie Schwartz decides to create a play based on J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye for his senior year project. He, along with Dee Dee, attempt to find Salinger in order to get his blessings for the project. Their search, in addition to Jamie's relationships with his classmates and with Dee Dee, forms the basis of the story. Both Alex Wolff (Jamie) and Stefania Owen (Dee Dee) are perfectly cast as the two teenagers. Owen in particular is radiant in her scenes. Although Chris Cooper who plays Salinger doesn't resemble him physically, his attitude about Jamie's play is most likely spot-on. There are some subtle references in the movie to the book itself which makes the viewing even more entertaining. Get your bowl of popcorn and enjoy!

Principal actors Alex Wolff and Stefania LaVie Owen turn in an inspired performance, and film is buoyed by the fact of Writer/Director Sadwith's script being 99% true (per Sadwith himself, in a Boston Globe interview about his meeting Salinger).
But the annoying musical soundtrack is so domineering and distracting, so out-of-sync with 1969, and it scars the beauty and honesty of what is essentially a very relatable and simple story.
Definitely of interest to all Catcher in the Rye fans.

So much moping about this movie -- I was pleasantly surprised and moved. Depends maybe on what you bring to it, so many passionate opinions and expectations in all things Salinger.

This is the best tribute to Salinger I've seen, with Shane Salerno's documentary being a not so distant second.

Chris Cooper is terrific in his brief appearance as Salinger. So are Alex Wolff and Stefania LaVie Owen (as fine a Phoebe as we're likely to see).

The auteur of this film did a splendid job working around Catcher In The Rye and in effect making it.

A movie about a kid who wants to make a play about a real book than the author refused to turn into a movie, based on the writer/director's pursuit of said author.

Poor Salinger. I remember an article in Esquire magazine in which the writer tracks him down, and the back story on this movie seems to be the same, and each mentions that they're not the only ones to have done it. He probably had more visitors after he moved to New Hampshire for the solitude than he did before.

That's the premise of Coming Through the Rye, but this movie has no more to do with Catcher In the Rye or JD Salinger than "Finding Bobby Fischer" has to do with chess, or "Jaws" has to do with catching sharks. It's a cute little teenage love story, albeit a bit unrealistic (I don't see a prep school aged boy turning down a girl, or the girl accepting the rejection as gracefully as DeeDee does), but the lead actors are likable and the movie will appeal to anyone who has a warm spot for Catcher and Salinger.

I give it 3 stars plus 1 for Chris Cooper's performance. Most of us will never know how true to life it is, but it matches the way I'd imagine JD Salinger being based on what I've read about him.

Totally false, even the opening music mentions disco, no disco in 1969. But much worse is the contemporary cultural overlay that has nothing to do with 1969, complete distortion.

Much of it set at a fictional boarding school which in real life is my alma mater Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, a student wants to do a play based on JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Having read Salinger in prep school, I loved this movie, but I downgraded it from a four to three to account for my built-in bias.

From the beginning to the end, we were enchanted. The characters as well as the acting was outstanding. The story had us glued to our seats The music fitting and added depth to the story.

I believe that Salinger would have been extremely irritated with his depiction in this little piece of fluff.