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A novelist struggling with writer"s block enlists the aid of an assassin for some inspiration -- fully unaware that he is being set up to take the blame for a murder.

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

The sprightly young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter helps him over his writer"s block by acting out his fantasies of possible plots.

This self-effacing comedy about film industry blues stars Robert Wuhl and Martin Landau as a writer/producer duo who must deal with the increasingly fickle demands of their film"s financiers (Danny Aiello, Robert De Niro and Eli Wallach).

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt "The Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean for the screen.

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster"s beloved Shih Tzu.

In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood"s top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.

The world"s greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

A female writer and her relationships with two different men, one joyous and one introverted.

Tolkien"s novels were inspired by his mom"s storytelling, falling in love with another orphan, Edith, forming a brotherhood with 3 other misfits at school, the trench war of WWI and later telling stories to his own kids.

When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.

After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.

A theater director struggles with his work and the women in his life as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée"s family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

A novelist struggling with writer"s block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence.

A French writer"s marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang"s version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film"s brash American producer.

A dying writer bases his last book on his own perception of his family.

A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man"s work.

From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.

An 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.