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1) Mysteria
Publisher
Green Apple Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A has-been writer drafts the story of his life, and quite possibly his death. Once celebrated, Aleister Bain is now a whiskey-soaked, washed-up Hollywood screenwriter. Secluded in a sleazy hotel, he's desperately struggling to finish a script, with no success. But in this noir-esque thriller, truth is stranger than fiction and the chain-smoking Bain abruptly finds himself at the center of an investigation into the murder of a prominent politician's...
2) Slipstream
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A screenwriter, revising the movie he is working on, finds that reality and fiction are blurring together when some of the characters in his film are showing up in real life
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Marty is a struggling screenwriter who wants nothing more than to finish his script. Instead, he becomes entangled with the Los Angeles gangster underworld when his odd, but well-meaning friends kidnap a volatile gangster's shih tzu. The ordeal gives Marty all the inspiration he needs; now, he must live long enough to finish his story
4) The Majestic
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Peter Appleton, a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter who is about to see his first screenplay made into a film, is mistakenly called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As a result, the studio pulls the plans for the film. Peter then finds himself in a small California town after a car accident takes his memory. There, the townspeople believe he is local hero Luke Trimble. Peter settles into his life at the Majestic theater, as Luke Trimble,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Four struggling actors retreat to a cabin in Big Bear, California, in order to write a screenplay about a bag-headed serial killer in this "funny send-up of low-budget horror movies." However, "a stolen car battery, strange noises, and a mysterious disappearance or two lead them to believe a sack-wearing maniac may be lurking right outside their door"--Publisher description.
6) Here today
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz meets New York singer Emma Payge, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Allumination FilmWorks
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Struggling screenwriter Jared Dolan thinks his ship may have come in at last when his latest project hits paydirt with an independent producer. But fact and fiction begin to collide violently when the script which may or may not be autobiographical threatens to expose a tragic family secret that his wife doesn't know yet and his mother has vowed to keep hidden at all costs
9) The rewrite
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Screenwriter Keith Michaels was once on top of the world. Now he's divorced, broke, approaching fifty, and hasn't written a hit film in years. So when a university in the quiet town of Binghamton asks him to teach a course in screenwriting, Keith can't say no. His attitude slowly begins to change once he gets to know his students, including Holly, a single mom looking to start a new chapter in life.
10) Trumbo
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach) tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger. Nominated...
11) Straw dogs
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
David and Amy Sumner, a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father's death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie, which leads to a violent confrontation.
Series
Criterion collection volume 810
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor who is attracted to him lies to the police providing him...
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