Aspiring Writer
"aspiring writer" Movies and TV Shows
#1
You Hurt My Feelings
Synopsis:
A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.
Starring:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus,
David Cross,
Owen Teague
Plot:
dialogue driven,
struggling actor,
dramedy,
therapist,
reference to netflix,
opinion,
violence,
four word title,
f word,
love
...
#2
Y Tu Mamá También
Synopsis:
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Starring:
Silverio Palacios,
Gael García Bernal,
Diego Luna
#3
Sunset Boulevard
Synopsis:
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Starring:
Franklyn Farnum,
Fred Clark,
William Holden
#4
Stand by Me
Synopsis:
Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern are four friends who decide to hike to find the corpse of Ray Brower, a local teenager, who was hit by a train while plucking blueberries in the wild.
Starring:
Jerry O'Connell,
Corey Feldman,
Kiefer Sutherland
Plot:
friendship,
coming of age,
childhood friend,
walking on train tracks,
summertime,
treehouse,
boy,
dead body,
woods,
summer
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#5
Peeping Tom
Synopsis:
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
Starring:
Esmond Knight,
Anna Massey,
Miles Malleson
#6
I Vitelloni
Synopsis:
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful …
Starring:
Leopoldo Trieste,
Franco Fabrizi,
Jean Brochard
Plot:
train station,
card game,
crossdressing,
goodbye,
flower,
match,
billiards,
police officer,
billiard hall,
theater
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#7
Following
Synopsis:
Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious character.
Starring:
Jeremy Theobald,
Alex Haw,
Lucy Russell
#8
Arsenic and Old Lace
Synopsis:
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Starring:
Peter Lorre,
Cary Grant,
Priscilla Lane
#9
Almost Famous
Synopsis:
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.
Starring:
Zooey Deschanel,
Billy Crudup,
Jason Lee
#10
Gone Mom: The Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos
Synopsis:
Jennifer Dulos, the wealthy, Connecticut mother-of-five who mysteriously vanished.
Starring:
Warren Christie,
Annabeth Gish,
Laura Harris
#11
Whisper of the Heart
Synopsis:
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'.
Starring:
Minami Takayama,
Issey Takahashi,
Yoko Honna
Plot:
studio ghibli,
school,
ambition,
coming of age,
female protagonist,
book,
library,
cat,
reading,
crush
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#12
The Help
Synopsis:
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…
Starring:
Bryce Dallas Howard,
Octavia Spencer,
Allison Janney
#13
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Synopsis:
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Sarah and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.
Starring:
Gil Bellows,
Austin Abrams,
Dean Norris
#14
No Strings Attached
Synopsis:
Emma is a busy doctor who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when she offers her best friend Adam a relationship with one rule: No strings attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends?
Starring:
Jake Johnson,
Cary Elwes,
Natalie Portman
#15
My Salinger Year
Synopsis:
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
Starring:
Sigourney Weaver,
Colm Feore,
Margaret Qualley
Plot:
new york city,
based on novel or book,
roommate,
author,
typewriter,
aspiring writer,
1990s
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#16
Little Women
Synopsis:
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Starring:
Emma Watson,
Florence Pugh,
Timothée Chalamet
#17
Life of Pi
Synopsis:
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Starring:
Suraj Sharma,
Rafe Spall,
Irrfan Khan
Plot:
tiger,
india,
journey,
faith,
animal,
lifeboat,
survivor,
pacific ocean,
belief in god,
sinking ship
...
#18
Bird Box
Synopsis:
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
Starring:
Trevante Rhodes,
Tom Hollander,
Rosa Salazar
Plot:
suicide,
survival,
dystopia,
supermarket,
interracial romance,
violence,
blindfold,
bald man,
gun,
river
...