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    Movies

    Bar Girls (1995)

    The life and loves of gay women hanging out at a local tavern are examined in this slice of life...

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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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    Manhattan (1979)

    A divorced TV writer (Woody Allen) with a teenage girlfriend (Mariel Hemingway) falls in love with...

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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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    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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    Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)

    Home videos, audiotapes and writings from the late adventurer.

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    Best Friends (1982)

    Hollywood screenwriters (Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn), happy as lovers, unwisely get married and go...

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    A Life Less Ordinary (1997)

    An enraged Scottish janitor (Ewan McGregor) shoots his wealthy employer in the leg and kidnaps his...

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    Field of Dreams (1989)

    An inspired Iowa farmer (Kevin Costner) builds a baseball field, then sees Shoeless Joe Jackson's...

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    House (1986)

    A mounted fish moves, household objects levitate, and monsters haunt a troubled novelist (William...

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    The Player (1992)

    About 65 real-life movie stars fringe the satire of a Hollywood studio executive (Tim Robbins) who...

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    Enchanted April (1991)

    An English novelist's wife (Miranda Richardson) rents an Italian villa with a widow (Joan Plowright)...

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    Sleuth (1972)

    An aging British mystery writer (Laurence Olivier) invites his wife's lover (Michael Caine) to his...

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    The Beat Generation - An American Dream

    An investigation of the Beat Generation.

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    Caravan

    In this British melodrama, an indigent writer suffers from amnesia, forgets that he is in love with...

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    King of the Underworld (1939)

    A surgeon (Kay Francis) gets even with a gangster (Humphrey Bogart) for killing her surgeon husband.

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    Message in A Bottle (1999)

    A woman (Robin Wright Penn) learns that the author of a romantic note that washed ashore is a...

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    Miss Potter (2006)

    Beatrix Potter (Renée Zellweger) overcomes many obstacles in her quest to become a writer, including...

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    The Ape (2006)

    A young writer, nearing a mental breakdown caused by his family and boss, moves into an apartment...

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    The Lost Weekend (1945)

    Billy Wilder's Academy Award-winning portrait of an alcoholic writer facing a losing battle against...

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    George White's Scandals

    Legendary Broadway impresario George White made his Hollywood debut with this musical, which he...

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    Halloween 2 (2009)

    Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield,...

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    8 1/2 (1963)

    An Italian film director (Marcello Mastroianni) seeking the meaning of life retreats from his wife...

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    She's Having A Baby (1988)

    A restless yuppie copywriter (Kevin Bacon) marries his teenage sweetheart (Elizabeth McGovern), then...

  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being picture
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    The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

    In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the...

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    Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)

    Dissatisfaction, betrayal and sexual politics mark the tangled relationships among a number of urban...

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    The Sea Gull (1968)

    Filmed adaptation of Chekhov's classic.

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    The Wings of Eagles (1957)

    Based on the life of Frank ``Spig'' Wead, an aviation pioneer whose devotion to the Navy took...

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    Wonder Boys (2000)

    Terrified his second novel won't live up to the first and stumbling over his personal life, a writer...

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    Movies

    James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction (1998)

    A tour through contemporary American crime fiction novelist James Ellroy's Los Angeles--guided by...