Tag: writer

  • The Woman in the Fifth

    An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.

  • Twixt

    A struggling horror writer visiting a small town on a book tour gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V.

  • Carnage

    Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.

  • Straw Dogs

    A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control.

  • Young Adult

    A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who’s now married with a family.

  • Limitless

    The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret ‘smart drug’ that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.

  • The Help

    Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family’s struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around “the help”; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

  • And While We Were Here

    Trapped in a loveless marriage, a troubled writer experiences a sexual awakening when she meets a carefee American in Italy.

  • Hemingway & Gellhorn

    Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

  • In the House

    A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.