Writers as Depicted in Movies

Her Alibi

Tom Selleck plays a successful mystery novelist wh more...1 point

Tom Selleck plays a successful mystery novelist who cures a persistent case of writer's block by visiting the courtroom trial of a young Romanian woman named Nina (played by late '80s supermodel Paulina Porizkova) who has been accused of murder. He supplies the alleged murderer with an alibi--she can claim she was having an affair with him at his Connecticut country home... the fun begins as the movie starts to have multiple twists and turns. I enjoyed this flick.1 point

The Muse

Comic writer-director Albert Brooks (Lost in America, more...0 points

Comic writer-director Albert Brooks (Lost in America, Defending Your Life, Mother) specializes in difficult characters. Not characters who are neurotic in a fumbling but endearing Woody Allen kind of way; Brooks creates characters who would be a pain in the ass to know and are sometimes kind of excruciating to even watch--which is not to say that they're not also extremely funny. However, The Muse manages to soften the edges of his persona while sustaining the humor. Steven (Brooks), a screenwri...0 points

Sibling Rivalry

Kirstie Alley ( Cheers ) knocks em dead literally more...0 points

Kirstie Alley ( Cheers ) knocks em dead literally and then becomes hysterically hysterical in this laugh-out-loud funny comedy which co-stars Bill Pullman (Independence Day) Carrie Fisher (When Harry Met Sally) Jami Gertz ( Ally McBeal ) Scott Bakula ( Enterprise ) Sam Elliott (Fatal Beauty) and Ed O Neill ( Married With Children )! All Marjorie (Alley) ever wanted was to become a writer: like Sylvia Plath...only happy. But she put her dream aside to marry a doctor (Bakula)...before discovering....0 points

Stranger Than Fiction

An IRS auditor suddenly finds himself the subject more...0 points

An IRS auditor suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to effect his entire life from his work to his love-interest to his death.System Requirements:Running Time: 113 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: PG - 13 UPC: 043396154070 Manufacturer No: 154070 points

Funny Farm

George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) more...0 points

George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) directed this 1988 comedy that gives star Chevy Chase one of his better-quality vehicles. Chase plays a New York sportswriter who turns to the country for a simpler, happier way of living. He discovers, of course, that things don't work out that way. Hill's usual touch with comic timing, tone, and dialogue give Chase a rare career opportunity to be part of something a little classier than most of his other movies; but Funny Farm nevertheless h...0 points

Something's Gotta Give

Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) is a perennial play more...0 points

Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) is a perennial playboy with a libido much younger than his years. During what was to have been a romantic weekend with his latest infatuation Marin (Amanda Peet) at her mother's Hamptons beach house Harry develops chest pains. He winds up being nursed by Marin's reluctant mother Erica Barry (Diane Keaton) a successful divorced New York playwright. In the process Harry develops more heart pangs -- the romantic kind -- for Erica an age-appropriate woman whom he finds...0 points

As Good As It Gets

Jack Nicholson Helen Hunt Greg Kinnear and Cuba Go more...0 points

Jack Nicholson Helen Hunt Greg Kinnear and Cuba Gooding Jr. star in James L. Brooks hit comedy As Good As It Gets. Nicholson gives a show-stopping performance as Melvin Udall an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattans meanest mouth. But when his neighbor Simon is hospitalized Melvin is forced to baby-sit Simons dog. And that unexpected act of kindness-along with waitress Carol Connelly--helps put Melvin back in the human race. "Magically written directed and acted As Good As it gets is the...0 points

Murder, She Wrote Seasons 1-6 Bundle

Get ready for this collection of clever, entertain more...0 points

Get ready for this collection of clever, entertaining mysteries, the first six seasons of Murder, She Wrote. Join Angela Lansbury in her award-winning role as writer/detective Jessica Fletcher, who's always uncovering crime whether she's nestled in the charming town of Cabot Cove or traveling the world. Featuring exclusive interviews with Angela Lansbury and members of the cast and crew, this collection includes the beloved sleuth's thrilling involvements with international espionage, high socie...0 points

The Christopher Reeve Superman Collection (Superman - The Movie/ Superman II/ Superman III/ Superman IV - The Quest for Peace)

Includes: SUPERMAN THE MOVIE 4-DISC SPECIAL EDITIO more...0 points

Includes: SUPERMAN THE MOVIE 4-DISC SPECIAL EDITION 2000 Expanded Edition Movie with Commentary by Director Richard Donner and Creative Consultant Tom Mankiewicz 2 Loaded Bonus Discs: Documentaries Additional Scenes Screen Tests Gag Reel Additional Music Cues Vintage Movie Superman and the Mole-Men Starring George Reeves and 9 1940s Fleischer Studios Superman Cartoons. SUPERMAN II 2-DISC SPECIAL EDITION Commentary by Executive Producer Ilya Salkind and Producer Pierre Spengler New Dolby Digital....0 points

Alex & Emma (Widescreen Edition)

Romantic Comedy. Alex (Luke Wilson) is an author w more...0 points

Romantic Comedy. Alex (Luke Wilson) is an author whose writer's block and gambling debts have landed him in a jam. In order to get loan sharks off his back, he must finish his novel in 30 days or wind up dead. To help him complete his manuscript he hires stenographer Emma (Kate Hudson). As Alex begins to dictate his tale of a romantic love triangle to the charming yet somewhat opinionated stenographer, Emma challenges his ideas at every turn. Her unsolicited yet intriguing input begins to inadve...0 points

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Widescreen Edition)

Kate Hudson twinkles as the heroine of How to Lose more...0 points

Kate Hudson twinkles as the heroine of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, a magazine writer assigned to date a guy, make all the mistakes girls make that drive guys away (being clingy, talking in baby-talk, etc.), and record the process like a sociological experiment. However, the guy she picks--rangy Matthew McConaughey--is an advertising executive who's just bet that he can make a woman fall in love with him in ten days; if he succeeds, he'll win a huge account that will make his career. The set-up...0 points

Romancing the Stone / Jewel of the Nile

ROMANCING THE STONE SPECIAL EDITION and JEWEL OF T more...0 points

ROMANCING THE STONE SPECIAL EDITION and JEWEL OF THE NILE SPECIAL EDITION are new releases of these hit comic adventures starring Michael Douglas KathleenTurner and Danny DeVito with never-before-seen deleted scenes and featurettes. The titles are available as a slipcased giftset for $29.98 & $45.98.Disk 1: Romancing The Stone Special EditionDisk 2: Jewel of The NileFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE UPC: 024543267003 Manufacturer No: 22367000 points

Speechless

Michael Keaton and Geena Davis are a winning ticke more...0 points

Michael Keaton and Geena Davis are a winning ticket (Joel Siegel, Good Morning America ) in this captivating romantic comedy which proves conclusively that opposites do attract and then some. 'smart, sexy and side-splittingly funny (Mike McKay, WBTV-CBS), Speechless is the word for great entertainment. It was a match made in heaven... almost. Two witty, intelligent insomniacs, Kevin (Keaton) and Julia (Davis), meet over the last box of sleeping pills at an all-night convenience store and are imm...0 points

Deconstructing Harry

Woody Allen roared back at his detractors with Deconstructing more...0 points

Woody Allen roared back at his detractors with Deconstructing Harry, a bitterly funny treatise about the creative process. Known to mine his often tumultuous personal life for his movies, the embattled writer-director-star didn't bother to make his alter ego likable in this movie: Harry Block (Allen) pops pills, frequents prostitutes, and cheats on the women in his life, then writes about their foibles in thinly disguised fiction. No wonder they're all furious with him. As Harry journeys to his....0 points

Some Came Running

After a round of partying he can't remember, World more...0 points

After a round of partying he can't remember, World War II veteran and writer Dave Hirsh is placed on a bus headed for the last place he'd choose: Parkman, Indiana, the hometown Hirsh hasn't seen in well over a decade. Frank Sinatra plays Hirsh, whose arrival in Parkman brings small-town hypocrisy to the unforgiving light of day in this character-driven tale directed by Vincente Minnelli and based on a novel by James Jones (whose From Here to Eternity had led to Sinatra's 1953 Osca...0 points

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

When trip to Vegas becomes more trip than business more...0 points

When trip to Vegas becomes more trip than business renegade journalist Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo are forced to do the unthinkable--be normal.0 points

Le Magnifique

French heartthrob Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Francoi more...0 points

French heartthrob Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Francois, a reclusive novelist whose wild imagination gets the best of him in this delightful blend of fantasy and adventure. Becoming the lead character from his own book, the dashing spy-hero Bob Saint Clair, Francois is hysterically thrown into the middle of his latest espionage case in a hilarious whirlwind of chases, betrayals, confrontations and mutual attraction. Long before "Austin Powers," this cleverly-written French comedy outrageously portra...0 points

Almost Famous

Audiences and critics alike are raving about this more...0 points

Audiences and critics alike are raving about this larger-than-life rock'n 'roll favorite that Roger Ebert calls "one of the best movies of the year!" The guys of Stillwater have the sound, they have the look and Rolling Stone Magazine wants their story. For young reporter William Miller, it's the opportunity of a lifetime as he hits the road with his favorite band and discovers the price of fame, the value of family and the limits of friendship.0 points

The Lonely Guy

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Nim's Island (Widescreen Edition)

Nim Rusoe (Abigail Breslin) lives on a deserted is more...0 points

Nim Rusoe (Abigail Breslin) lives on a deserted island with her scientist father Jack (Gerard Butler) and her best friends: Selkie, a sea lion; Fred, a bearded dragon lizard; and Galileo, a plucky pelican. But when Jack goes missing at sea and the island is "invaded," Nim reaches out via e-mail to the adventurous author (Jodie Foster) of her favorite books, and together, each discovers what it takes to truly become the hero of your own life story.0 points

Big Bully

"Rick Moranis and Tom Arnold are first-rate&q more...0 points

"Rick Moranis and Tom Arnold are first-rate" (Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times) as long-time school rivals who pick up a feud where it never left off as teachers at their alma mater in this gag-filled war of wits and half-wits from the writer of Grumpy Old Men.0 points

Isn't She Great

An outrageous comedy about an ambitious woman of d more...0 points

An outrageous comedy about an ambitious woman of dubious talent who writes a sexy best-selling novel and takes the world by storm. Special features: cast and filmmakers production notes theatrical trailer universal showcase and universal web link. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/06/2004 Starring: Bette Midler Nathan Lane Run time: 95 minutes Rating: R Director: Andrew Bergman0 points

Back to the Future

Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/10/2 more...0 points

Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/10/2009 Run time: 116 minutes Rating: Pg0 points

Tamara Drewe

A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown i more...0 points

A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the english countryside where her childhood home is being prepped for sale. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 02/08/2011 Starring: Gemma Buffini Dominic Cooper Run time: 111 minutes Rating: R Director: Stephen Frears0 points

Seems Like Old Times

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