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.
Marty er en mislykket manusforfatter som drømmer om å fullføre et manus han kaller "Seven Psychopaths". Billy er Martys beste venn, en arbeidsløs skuespiller og deltids hundetyv som vil hjelpe Marty på alle mulige måter. Hans er Billys medsammensvorne. Billy og Hans har nå stjålet den høyt elskede hunden til den dypt religiøse og psykopatiske gangsteren Charlie, og han er ikke blid. Charlie er uforutsigbar, ekstremt voldelig og vil ikke nøle med å ta livet av enhver som har vært involvert i tyveriet. Marty er i ferd med å få all den fokus og inspirasjon han trenger, men vil han overleve lenge nok til å fullføre sitt livs storverk?
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.
Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?
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.
A young man meets and instantly falls in love with an engaged woman.
Manusforfatteren Ben (Nicholas Cage) er en alkoholisert lite sympatisk mann. Han stikker av når han får sparken, og bestemmer seg for å sette kursen mot Las Vegas, der han har tenkt å drikke seg ihjel. Der møter han den prostituerte Sera, og de to tilbringer natten sammen. Men Sera har det heller ikke lett med sin hallik, som banker henne stadig vekk. Når halliken blir drept, har Sera muligheter til å bestemme sin egen skjebne, og hun inviterer Ben til å bo hos seg, selv om hun vet at han er alkoholiker av verste slag. De to taperne i samfunnet møtes, og vaklende men sikkert forsøker de to å bygge et liv sammen.
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.
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
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...