One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Scénariste en manque d'inspiration, Marty rêve d'écrire un film sur de dangereux psychopathes. Il a plusieurs idées de personnages et de situations, mais aucun fil conducteur. Pendant qu'il boit pour trouver l'illumination, deux de ses amis l'aident bien malgré eux. Bill et Hans ont l'habitude de kidnapper des animaux de compagnie pour toucher les récompenses de leurs propriétaires. Ils n'auraient toutefois pas dû dérober le chien de Charlie. Ce dernier est un fou furieux qui est prêt à tuer pour le retrouver. En cavale dans le désert, Marty, Bill et Hans élaborent un scénario de film qui mélange réalité et fiction.
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Un chef d'orchestre à la retraite est en vacances dans les Alpes avec sa fille et son meilleur ami, réalisateur, lorsqu'il reçoit une invitation de la Reine Elizabeth II pour jouer lors de l'anniversaire du Prince Philip.
A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
Un scénariste de film qui travaille sur le script d'une comédie romantique peine à y arriver alors qu'il ne peut lui-même entretenir une relation amoureuse. Il finit cependant par rencontrer la fille parfaite, jusqu'à ce qu'il réalise qu'elle est déjà fiancée.
Ben, scénariste alcoolique, décide de partir à Las Vegas après s'être fait licencier par la maison de production pour laquelle il travaillait. Il se donne quatre semaines pour boire jusqu'à en mourrir et s'installe pour cela dans un petit hôtel miteux à proximité des bars qui ne ferment jamais. Il rencontre Sera, une jeune prostituée dont il tombe amoureux. Elle décide de l'héberger et l'assistera jusqu'à ses derniers instants.
A middle-aged filmmaker on the verge of a breakthrough. Two kids in search of a lost backpack. A small dog a long way from home.
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Two emotionally unavailable men attempt a relationship.
En 1947, Dalton Trumbo était l’un des scénaristes les plus populaires d’Hollywood jusqu’au jour où lui et plusieurs autres artistes furent brusquement emprisonnés et placés sur une liste noire en raison de leurs idéaux politiques.
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
An screenwriter with a violence record is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
With his career on the skids, a Hollywood screenwriter enlists the aid of a modern-day muse, who proves to test his patience.
A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events - on location, at the now abandoned school. Since members of cast and crew disappear without a trace, it seems as if history is repeating itself...