Movies about writers

Barton Fink (screenwriter/Playwright)
Shakespeare in Love (Playwright)
Basketball Diaries (Poet)
In The Land of Women (X-rated movies screenwriter/Novelist)
Moulin Rouge (Writer)
How to get ahead in advertising (Copywriter)
Where the Buffalo Roam (Journalist)
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (Journalist)
Naked Lunch (Novelist)

Adaptation (Screenwriter)
Total Eclipse (Poet)

Secret Window

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~In the event of a Zombie Uprising, remember to sever the head or destroy the brain!~

All The President's Men (Journalist)
Down With love (Journalist)
Erin Brockovich (Journalist)
American Splendor (Comics Writer)
Shattered Glass (Journalist)
The Hoax (Novelist)
Martian Child (Novelist)

Full Metal Jacket

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"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

Suburban Girl (Editor)
Devil and Daniel Webster

Wonder Boys -- one of my favorites!

All good mentions, but what about Misery? "I'm your number 1 fan"



I love Kathy Bates performance, but can't help but feel that James Caan doesn't get as much applaud. The way he reacts to Bate's craziness is genius acting.

Throw Momma From the Train (1987, Danny DeVito)

The Shining (1980)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Becoming Jane (2007)
Romancing the Stone (1984)
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Skin Deep (1989)
Miss Potter (2006)

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Sunset Boulevard
An angel at my table
Shadowlands
Mrs Parker and the vicious circle
Barfly
As good as it gets
The shining
So I married an axe murderer
Blue car
Il Postino
Anne Perry: Interiors (documentary about a Victorian crime novelist, during the release of Heavenly creatures, she got outed as one of the girls)

I always liked Croupier

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Under-the-radar Movie Awesomeness.
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The Hours
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle
Secret Window

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I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience. ~Wilson Mizner

Superman Flicks (Journalist)
Fletch (Journalist)
Seems Like Old Times
Stranger Than Fiction
(TV) Castle

One of my favorites that is about both writing and writers (as opposed to simply featuring characters who happen to be writers): Starting Out in the Evening.

Frank Langella has always seemed an awkward character on screen to me. But he's perfect as an aging writer who has outlived his early fame. Lauren Ambrose is also excellent as the grad student who's smart and motivated and so completely self-absorbed. And Lili Taylor ... wow, she's so vulnerable and wounded in this movie you feel a sense of dread for her every time she's on screen.

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Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain ... only straw. Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? Scarecrow: I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they? Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.

The Whole Wide World

Miss Potter
I Remember Mama
Capote
Beloved Infidel
In a Lonely Place

The Lost Weekend
Christmas in July
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Beard's love of B
Hangover.

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. - John Wooden
My IMDb page

Educating Rita (poet)
Design for Living (playwright)
Orphee (poet)

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You cannot have it both ways. A dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love can never be a great dancer. Never. (The Red Shoes, 1948)

Bonnie and Clyde (Bonnie Parker wrote poetry)

http://texashideout.tripod.com/poem.html