Writer's Life
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    The Fourth Man (1984)

    Gerard Reve is a famous writer and a homosexual with a vivid imagination. He is obsessed with...

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    Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1992)

    A murder mystery writer misreads the nervous man he bullies in a spooky Hollywood mansion.

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    Funny Farm (1988)

    A sportswriter (Chevy Chase) and his wife (Madolyn Smith) move to a cottage in the country, where he...

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    No Maps for These Territories

    "There's nothing stable, nothing static, nothing to stand on, nothing to cling to. There are no maps...

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    American Dreamer (1984)

    An Ohio housewife/mystery writer (JoBeth Williams) wins a trip to Paris, where a bump on the head...

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    Deeply

    A teenager (Julia Brendler) befriends an eccentric novelist (Lynn Redgrave) writing a story about a...

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    Critic's Choice (1963)

    A Broadway critic (Bob Hope) shows up drunk and late on opening night to review a play written by...

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    Total Eclipse (1995)

    Mutual destructiveness marks the relationship of 19th-century poets Arthur Rimbaud (Leonardo...

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    Bombay Talkie (1970)

    An American writer visits India in search of inspiration, becomes involved with a Bombay film...

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    Room to Rent

    An Egyptian screenwriter (Said Taghmaoui) in England takes on assorted jobs to earn enough money to...

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    Wrestling with Angels (2006)

    Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock pays tribute to the award-winning writer of ``Angels in America,'' as he...

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    Until the Night

    An unsuccessful writer, who leads a dissolute life, has an affair with an ex-lover, who is the wife...

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    Writer of O (2005)

    Dominique Aury reveals herself as the author of the controversial erotic novel ``The Story of O''...

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    A Business Affair (1995)

    Vanni Corso, a charming but ruthless publisher, steals the beautiful and witty wife, Kate Swallow,...

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    The Front (1976)

    A man acts as a front for renowned television writers politically blacklisted during the McCarthy...

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    Cobb (1994)

    Baseball legend Ty Cobb (Tommy Lee Jones) pressures biographer Al Stump (Robert Wuhl) to whitewash...

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    The Cool Surface

    An aspiring screenwriter (Robert Patrick) meets an actress (Teri Hatcher) who desperately wants to...

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    Slam (1998)

    Jailed as a murder suspect and a drug dealer, a black poet (Saul Williams) denounces violence, gangs...

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    Little Noises (1992)

    A struggling writer (Glover) steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.

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    Malina (1990)

    Set in Vienna, film charts a female writer's passage to self-destruction as she is torn between two...

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    The Whole Wide World (1996)

    A romance builds between a school teacher and a talented writer.

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    Stone Reader (2003)

    Filmmaker Mark Moskowitz discovers a great unknown novel, "The Stones of Summer" by Dow Mossman, and...

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    Kill Your Darlings

    The path of a struggling screenwriter and a mysterious free spirit intersects with that of a...

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    Antonieta

    A French author travels to Mexico to research the life of Antonieta Rivas Mecade, a liberal...

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    Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1998)

    Dramatic narrative feature documentary about writer Ayn Rand. Film incorporates a screen adaptation...

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    Fighting Words (2007)

    A gifted poet is discovered by an attractive publisher. When the relationship turns sexual, the...

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    Tom & Viv (1994)

    English literature and medicine fail the marriage of poet T.S. Eliot (Willem Dafoe) and his ailing...

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    Broadway Damage (1998)

    A homosexual actor (Michael Shawn Lucas) rooms with a female friend (Mara Hobel) in Manhattan, seeks...

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    Chinese Coffee

    About two Greenwich Village rival writers and their conversations on love, friendship and the siren...

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    Saint-Ex (1995)

    The true story of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, a world famous French aviator who, in the 1920's and...