In “Radical Wolfe,” director Richard Dewey uses a Vanity Fair article, penned by writer Michael Lewis, about now-legendary American novelist and journalist Tom Wolfe (author of “Bonfire of the Vanities”) as a sculpture armature around which to build the narrative. Lewis wrote the source material that inspired the likes of “Moneyball,” “The Big Short,” and “The Blind Side,” and clearly sees Tom Wolfe as a hero and mentor.
‘Radical Wolfe’: American Literary Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
“Radical Wolfe” reveals author Tom Wolfe to be an unflappable, powerfully principled, conservative-leaning, old school family man.
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Writer Tom Wolfe in 1981, in "Radical Wolfe." Eric Luse/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images/Kino Lorber
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