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Similar films?

posted 13 years ago by philistine-985-817685
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Such as Finding Forrester, Misery, Barton Fink, Secret Window, etc...

Any recommendations? As a writer myself, I often find the personal side of the writer's lifestyle quite interesting, as anyone in the business will tell you, it seems to be information seldom come across, regardless of whether or not it's entirely fictitious.

Thanks.

P.S: I thought this was a brilliant film. It was recommended to me by a fellow writer, and although the synopsis didn't have me too hot and bothered, watching it certainly did!

[–] thomas_bechmann 13 years ago

As Good As It Gets is a well written film about a writer, and so are the Woody Allen films Manhattan, Deconstructing Harry and Bullets over Broadway. As a writer myself I usually do not look for films which have a protagonist who is a writer, but just well-written films, some of my favorites which I reference when I write are; Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Chinatown, Witness, Rainman, Garden State and Little Miss Sunshine. At the moment I am writing a comedy so I use Superbad, Napoleon Dynamite and About a Boy for that. Those Pixar films usually have a very tight script also...

[–] MrFilmJunkie 13 years ago

do screenwriters count as well? then i'd recommend "adaption" by spike jonze:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268126/

[–] BigMac25 9 years ago

Response to an old post, I know, but anyway...

I always find it hack when writers write about writers. Narcissistic maybe.

A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of it & defends it for others.

[–] hershiser2 9 years ago

So who is supposed to wrote about writers? Painters?

[–] Naughty-God 8 years ago

"About Schmidt" has a similar tone as it deals with an older lonely man coming to terms with his own mortality, and it's told through his narration of letters to an adopted African boy he sponsors, so although it's not necessarily about a writer it does involve a man writing out his experiences in a cathartic manner.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (6468) 6 years ago

Maybe
Goodbye Columbus?
Liberal Arts?
Irrational Main?

[–] Wuchak (8837) 5 years ago

Try "Cross Creek" (1983) about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085380/?ref_=ur_urv.

You also might be interested in "The Whole Wide World" (1996), which is about Robert E. Howard, and "Coming through the Rye" (2015), which indirectly deals with J.D. Salinger.

[–] BourbonKing (5782) 4 years ago

The Roommate (1984) - featured on PBS' American Playhouse

[–] peterkneter (385) 3 years ago

A serious Man, The Shining, Dead Poets society, A beautiful Mind, Also the Netflix Series "the chair" is very good and you get right into the academic setting!