Films About Writing and Writers



  • Adaptation 2002 πŸ“½- "A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen." - IMDB
    • Written by Susan Orlean & Charlie Kaufman
    • Directed by Spike Jonze
  • Bad Writing 2010 πŸ“½- Can writing be taught? Are all writers tortured geniuses? A fantastic documentary about creative writing.   
    • Written by Vernon Lott, Christian Kinnard, Jennifer Anderson
    • Directed by Vernon Lott
  • Barton Fink 1991 πŸ“½- "A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood." IMDB
    • Written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
    • Directed by the Coen brothers
  • Before Sunset 2004 πŸ“½- "Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse's book tour." IMDB
    • Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke
    • Directed by Richard Linklater
  • Bright Star 2009 πŸ“½- "The three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life." IMDB
    • Written by Jane Campion and Andrew Motion
    • Directed by Jane Campion
  • Capote 2005 πŸ“½- "In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row." IMDB
    • Written by Dan Futterman and Gerald Clarke
    • Directed by Bennett Miller  
  • Finding Forrester 2000 πŸ“½- "Forrester, the author of a famous book, decides to help Jamal, a 16-year-old student, discover his writing prowess by mentoring him and enrolling him into a prestigious private school." IMDB
    • Written by Mike Rich
    • Directed by Gus Van Sant
  • Genius 2016 πŸ“½- "A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others." IMDB
    • Written by John Logan and A. Scott Berg
    • Directed by Michael Grandage 
  • Kill Your Darlings 2013 πŸ“½- "A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs." IMDB
    • Written by Austin Bunn and John Krokidas
    • Directed by John Krokidas
  • Midnight in Paris 2011 πŸ“½- "While on a trip to Paris with his fiancΓ©e's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight." IMDB
    • Written by Woody Allen
    • Directed by Woody Allen
  • Misery 1990 πŸ“½- "After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse." IMDB
    • Written by Stephen King and William Goldman
    • Directed by Rob Reiner
  • Ruby Sparks 2012 πŸ“½- "A novelist struggling with writer's block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence." IMDB
    • Written by Zoe Kazan
    • Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
  • Secret Window 2004 πŸ“½- "A successful writer in the midst of a painful divorce is stalked at his remote lake house by a would-be scribe who accuses him of plagiarism." IMDB
    • Written by Stephen King and David Koepp
    • Directed by David Koepp
  • Stranger Than Fiction 2006 πŸ“½- "I.R.S. auditor Harold Crick suddenly finds his mundane Chicago life to be the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire existence, from his work to his love life to his death." IMDB
    • Written by Zach Helm
    • Directed by Marc Forster
  • The End of the Tour 2015 πŸ“½- "The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'" IMDB
    • Written by Donald Margulies and David Lipsky
    • Directed by James Ponsoldt
  • The Ghost Writer 2010 πŸ“½- "A ghost writer, hired to complete the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister, uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy." IMDB
    • Written by Robert Harris and Roman Polanski
    • Directed by Roman Polanski 
  • The Words 2012 πŸ“½- "A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man's work." IMDB
    • Written by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal
    • Directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal
  • Trumbo 2015 πŸ“½- "In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs." IMDB
    • Written by John McNamara and Bruce Cook
  • Wonder Boys 2000 πŸ“½- "An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in." - IMDB
    • Written by Michael Chabon and Steve Kloves
    • Directed by Curtis Hanson

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