Aspiring Writer
Happy Together
HDSerious, wannabe writer Chris starts college/UCLA and shares room with Alex, who turns out to be a cute party girl. He wants to move - at first.
Hemingway & Gellhorn
HDA drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.
The Words
HDA writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man's work.
Comic Book Confidential
HDA survey of the artistic history of the comic book medium and some of the major talents associated with it.
Girl Most Likely
HDA failed New York playwright awkwardly navigates the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News.
Hannah Arendt
HDA look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for 'The New Yorker' on the trial of the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
Middle of Nowhere
HDRuby goes on a journey of self-discovery when she drops out of medical school in order to focus on her incarcerated husband's well-being.
An Angel at My Table
HDJanet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.
Barton Fink
HDA renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Kafka
HDKafka works during the day at an insurance company, where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals.
Mark Twain and Me
HDDorothy Quick, a young girl, befriends the famous writer, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens, during the final years of his life.
Naked Lunch
HDAfter developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife, and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
This Is My Life
HDA stand-up comic (Julie Kavner) neglects her two daughters in the midst of her newfound fame.
Black Marigolds
HDWriter Ryan Cole and his Wife Kate go to an off season vacation house where he intends to finish his second novel. But their plans are changed by a devastating mental illness.
True Romance
HDIn Detroit, a lonely pop culture geek marries a call girl, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood. Meanwhile, the owners of the cocaine, the Mob, track them down in an attempt to reclaim it.
Crazy Kind of Love
HDA broken family finds their relationships to one another changed by a new arrival in the household.
This Thing with Sarah
HDA listless writer pursues a woman to help him get over his ex girlfriend.
Stuck in Love
HDAn acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
Shadowlands
HDC.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
HDDorothy 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.
Cobb
HDA reporter hired to write the 'official' biography of Ty Cobb discovers just how dark the baseball legend's real story is.
Carrington
HDThe platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington (Dame Emma Thompson) and writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) in the early twentieth century.
Not Another Happy Ending
HDWhen a troubled editor discovers that his only successful author is blocked, he knows that he needs to do something about it.
Harriet the Spy
HDHarriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when her friends find her secret notebook, the tables are turned on her. Can she win them back and still keep on going with the spy business?
The Whole Wide World
HDIn 1933 Texas, a schoolteacher and aspiring writer meets a pulp fiction writer, and a relationship soon develops between the two, but it is doomed by his slavishly devotion to his ailing mother and insistence on his freedom.
Mr. Jealousy
HDA writer becomes obsessed with his girlfriend's former boyfriend, now a very successful novelist. To discover if the ex-boyfriend still has feeling for his old love, the writer joins the novelist's group therapy meetings.
As Good as It Gets
HDA single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
Little Men
HDBased on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott. When two homeless boys from Boston find themselves at Plumfield, a rural boarding school run by Jo and her husband, the boys learn both academic and life lessons they won't ever for...
La Cucaracha
HDA desperate writer fights for survival when the Mexican mob involves him in murder.
Stories Forlorn
HDStruggling to find answers to his brother's questionable suicide, a sixteen year old aspiring writer is lured into the underground world of Hong Kong, as the Chinese march their way over the border during the last summer under Bri...
Boys of Abu Ghraib
HDAn American soldier deployed at Abu Ghraib finds himself behind the walls of the infamous Hard Site, where he develops a secret friendship with an Iraqi detainee.
Following
HDA young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing.