A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man's work.A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man's work.A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man's work.
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations
Zoe Saldana
- Dora Jansen
- (as Zoë Saldana)
Vito DeFilippo
- New York Apartment Doorman
- (as Vito De Filippo)
Kevin Desfosses
- Rory's Assistant
- (as Kevin Desfossés)
Liz Stauber
- Camy Rosen
- (as Elizabeth Stauber)
- Directors
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLee Sternthal and Brian Klugman wrote the script back in 1999. As friends of Bradley Cooper before his The Hangover (2009) fame, they ask him to play the lead, he accepted then, and kept his word more than ten years later.
- GoofsIn two different New York scenes we can see trucks from Canada Post.
- Quotes
The Old Man: We all make our choices in life, the hard thing to do is live with them.
- Alternate versionsThe US theatrical version was slightly censored for a PG-13 rating, removing several instances of strong language, and re-edited for shorter running time of 97 minutes. The US Blu-ray and DVD contain a 102 minute extended cut that restores these alterations, and several international theatrical releases (such as the UK), are based on this version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Chelsea Lately: Episode #6.132 (2012)
Featured review
The Words is a story within a story within a story. I absolutely loved the story within the story. A masterful telling of an intriguing situation with wonderful acting and believable emotions that, at both levels, tugged at my heart strings. However, the third level added very little, or should I say distracted from the rest. It was meant to put a twist on the story within the story, to make the viewer think and wonder, but it was mostly a distraction, and the acting was far inferior to the other two levels. The producers should have seen this but instead, they took something great and made it good. Another reviewer said somewhere that negative reviews were from people who "didn't get it". That's pretty conceited by them to think that they were the only ones who got it. Trust me, I got it, I just didn't like it. All that being said, it was still worth watching, if only for the two inner layers.
- imdb-18282
- Jan 9, 2013
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Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $11,494,838
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,750,894
- Sep 9, 2012
- Gross worldwide
- $15,950,164
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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