Keyword: writer

The Magnificent One

7.2

1973

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Writing his 43rd spy novel, François includes people from his life. Hes the competent, sophisticated secret agent Bob in stark contrast to François. His cute neighbor is Tatiana who helps Bob in Acapulco.

Miss Austen Regrets

7.1

2007

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In the later years of her life, as shes approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband.

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

6.4

1994

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Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

Zoom

6.2

2015

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A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.

The Bride Wore Boots

6.2

1946

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A bookish historian is married to a steely Southern belle who raises horses, an animal that he doesnt care for. However, the cute young neighbor girl doesnt feel that way about him and makes no bones about letting him know it.

Crime Wave

6.8

1985

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A young director intent on making \the greatest color crime movie ever\ cant seem to finish his script--he has a beginning and an end, but he cant quite figure out the middle. The daughter of his landlord, excited to have a real \movie person\ living nearby, tries to help by putting him in touch with a man who wants to collaborate on a script--the strange \Dr. Jolly\.

The Revolt of Mamie Stover

6.6

1956

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Set in the early 40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as the second World War has begun to intensify. Mamie settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life. Though her prospects look good when she falls in love with a science-fiction writer who treats her with the respect she deserves, the dawning war and the fallacies of her previous lifestyle complicate their budding romance. Mamie cannot fully remove herself from her former profession, and provides some of her old services to the sailors stationed in town. Searching for another means of financial security, Mamie invests in several pieces of real estate and becomes quite wealthy, though her bad reputation has not been forgotten by the locals.

Palmetto

6

1998

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A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.

Permanent Midnight

6.3

1998

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A comedy writer struggles to overcome his addiction to heroin.

The United States of Leland

7.1

2003

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A young mans experience in a juvenile detention center that touches on the tumultuous changes that befall his family and the community in which he lives.

Sudden Fear

7.5

1952

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After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.

Delirious

5.7

1991

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A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.