Writer's Life
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    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

    At 43, Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, has a devastating...

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    The United States of Leland (2004)

    A teacher (Don Cheadle) at a juvenile correctional facility tries to determine what drove a teen...

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    The Night Listener (2006)

    A writer and radio host (Robin Williams) begins a harrowing investigation into the truth behind a...

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    Sunset Boulevard

    Hack screenwriter Joe (William Holden) moves in with Hollywood has-been Norma (Gloria Swanson) and...

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    The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

    The 1800s French novelist (Paul Muni) defends Capt. Alfred Dreyfus (Joseph Schildkraut) against...

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    Jimmy Carter Man from Plains (2007)

    Filmmaker Jonathan Demme explores the private and public life of President Jimmy Carter.

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    Winter Passing (2006)

    A dour actress (Zooey Deschanel) leaves New York to visit her father (Ed Harris), a washed-up...

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    Iris (2001)

    Novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch (Judi Dench, Kate Winslet) falls in love with an Oxford don...

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    Quills (2000)

    A doctor and a priest (Joaquin Phoenix) clash over the appropriate treatment for the Marquis de Sade...

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    Poetic Justice (1993)

    A beauty-salon worker (Janet Jackson) goes from South Central Los Angeles to Oakland in a mail truck...

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    I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)

    Andy Warhol (Jared Harris) protege Valerie Solanas (Lili Taylor) becomes frustrated and shoots the...

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    Factotum (2006)

    A writer (Matt Dillon) drifts through a series of dead-end jobs in an attempt to fuel his passions...

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    A Fine Madness

    Frustrated poet Samson (Sean Connery), who finds societal conventions maddening, lives in New York...

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    Beat

    William S. Burroughs and his wife Joan (Courtney Love) live wildly, as do friends Allen Ginsberg...

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    Il Postino (1995)

    Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to...

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    Becoming Jane (2007)

    Though her parents expect her to marry a wealthy suitor, young Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) becomes...

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    Daphne

    Writer Du Maurier (Geraldine Somerville), author of ``Rebecca'' and ``Jamaica Inn,'' becomes...

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    The Bad Lord Byron

    From the vantage point of his deathbed, Byron recalls his life and many loves, imagining that he's...

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    Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

    A producer (Jack Warden) persuades a playwright (John Cusack) to cast a mistress so that a mobster...

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    Lonesome Jim (2006)

    A 27-year-old man (Casey Affleck) moves back in with his parents.

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    Misery (1990)

    An author (James Caan) recovers from an accident, nursed by a twisted fan (Kathy Bates) who insists...

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    Before Night Falls (2000)

    Writer Reinaldo Arenas (Javier Bardem), a homosexual, sees revolution in Cuba and lives as an exile...

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    Reds (1981)

    U.S. journalist John Reed (Warren Beatty) and wife Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) witness the Russian...

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    Look At Me (2005)

    A gifted singer (Marilou Berry) seeks approval from her egotistical father (Jean-Pierre Bacri), who...

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    The Beat Generation - An American Dream

    An investigation of the Beat Generation.

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    Angel (2009)

    The rise and fall of a young eccentric British writer, in the early 20th century.

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    The Boys Are Back (2009)

    A sports writer becomes a single parent in tragic circumstances.

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    Permanent Midnight (1998)

    Sitcom writer Jerry Stahl (Ben Stiller) recalls heroin addiction, his mother's suicide, his failed...

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    Contempt (1964)

    A screenwriter's (Michel Piccoli) wife (Brigitte Bardot) hates him for joining the U.S. producer...

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    The World According to Garp (1982)

    John Irving's novel about the son of an unmarried nurse whose career is overshadowed by his mother's...