Writer Pseudonym
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.
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.
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.
The End of the Affair
HDA desperate man tries to find out why his beloved left him years ago.
Love & Sex
HDKate's fired from a women's magazine for writing about BJs, based on own experience as requested. She gets a last chance - 2500 happy, perky words on finding/keeping that perfect man. She tells about her relationships.
Beat
HDThe story of writer William Seward Burroughs and his wife.
The Rewrite
HDAn Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there.
Quills
HDIn a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
Dinner with Friends
HDTwo married couples have their twelve-year bond of friendship put to the test when one couple reveals that they are splitting up.
About Alex
HDWhen a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq
HDThe author Michel Houellebecq is abducted by three amateur kidnappers.
Big Bad Love
HDBarlow is a hard-drinking, heavy-smoking, long-haired, and deeply unhappy aspiring writer who pulls a dozen rejection slips out of his mailbox every day while trying to get through his life with some semblance of purpose.
Iris
HDTrue story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Playing It Cool
HDUnrequited love motivates a guy to write about his experiences.