Writer's Life
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    Scotch and Milk

    A young man struggles to recover from his emotional break up with a woman and revels in the...

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    Earth Entranced

    A poet flees the pampered world of the elite for that of radical politics, yet soon discovers that...

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    Deconstructing Harry (1997)

    An immature middle-aged writer (Woody Allen) with lifelong women problems seeks someone to accompany...

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    Cafe Lumiere (2005)

    2003, Tokyo. A part of a residential neighborhood where the tramcars still run. Freelance writer...

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    The Designated Mourner (1997)

    A man (Mike Nichols), his wife (Miranda Richardson) and her father (David DeKeyser), all citizens of...

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    Limited Edition (1996)

    A story centering around Edward, an enigmatic, emotionally troubled British publishing executive who...

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    Stevie (1978)

    This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.

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    The Business of Fancydancing (2002)

    Seymour Polatkin lives a dream life, sharing his colonized Indian ironies with the world through...

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    Bye Bye Braverman (1968)

    Four middle-aged Jewish academics get together for a friend's funeral and their conversations turn...

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    A Man Called Peter (1955)

    Scottish-born minister Peter Marshall's (Richard Todd) sermons inspire his wife (Jean Peters),...

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    Charlie Bubbles (1968)

    A working-class British writer (Albert Finney), suddenly rich, has a fling with his secretary (Liza...

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    Celebrity (1998)

    In the wake of their split, a neurotic writer (Kenneth Branagh) and his insecure wife (Judy Davis)...

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    My Sister Eileen (1955)

    Two Ohio sisters (Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett) move to Greenwich Village, where one finds a publisher...

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    The Third Wish

    A first edition of Dickens' ``Great Expectations'' grants three wishes to an aspiring writer (Jenna...

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    Burroughs

    This biographical documentary on author and eccentric William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), founder of...

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    Don't Just Stand There! (1968)

    This comedy finds American writer Lawrence Colby (Robert Wagner) augmenting his scribing income by...

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    Bukowski: Born Into This (2004)

    Filmmaker John Dullaghan traces the turbulent life of literary cult figure Charles Bukowski.

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    Illuminata (1999)

    A playwright (John Turturro) is anxious to stage his new work, which was written for a New York...

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    Aspen Extreme (1993)

    An autoworker (Paul Gross) and his buddy (Peter Berg) exit Detroit, move to Colorado and become...

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    Agatha (1979)

    Based on the actual 11-day disappearance of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie in 1926, the film...

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    A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)

    An expatriate U.S. couple (Kris Kristofferson, Barbara Hershey) raise a daughter (Leelee Sobieski)...

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    The Guys (2002)

    A woman (Sigourney Weaver) helps a New York fire captain (Anthony LaPaglia) write eulogies for...

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    The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)

    Victorian poet Robert Browning (Bill Travers) courts invalid poet Elizabeth Barrett (Jennifer Jones)...

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    The Prize (1963)

    One Nobel Prize winner (Paul Newman) in Stockholm discovers a communist plot to replace another...

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    Shock Corridor (1963)

    Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a...

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    Love Streams (1984)

    While a successful writer researches an upcoming book on love for sale, a onetime girlfriend...

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    Wives and Lovers

    A married couple, just barely getting by, has their luck change drastically when the husband finally...

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    Move

    This humorless comedy finds Hiram Jaffe (Elliott Gould) earning a living as a pornography writer and...

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    The Squid and the Whale (2005)

    A teenager (Jesse Eisenberg) and his younger brother cope with the fallout from their parents' (Jeff...

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    Snapshots

    In this experimental film, everyone enacts roles written from the player's lives; everyone plays...