Unleash your creativity with movies for writers.
As an author, I love movies about writers. I connect with the main characters immediately, because I understand the crazy world they live in.
Here’s my list of ‘go-to’ movies for any writer:
Adaptation — comedy/drama
starring Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper
American Dreamer — romantic comedy
starring Tom Conti, JoBeth Williams, and Giancarlo Ciannini
As Good As It Gets — comedy
starring Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, and Cuba Gooding Jr.
The Boyfriend School — romantic comedy
starring Shelly Long, Steve Gutenburg
Castle — TV show
starring Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic
Dan In Real Life — comedy
starring Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, and Emily Blunt
Dead Poets Society -drama
starring Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke
Delirious — comedy
starring John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, and Raymond Burr
Finding Forrester — drama
starring Sean Connery, Rob Brown
Finding Neverland — fantasy
starring Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet
Funny Farm — comedy
starring Chevy Chase, Madeline Smith Osborne, and Joseph Maher
Her Alibi — comedy
starring Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, James Farentino, and Patrick Wayne
The Ghost Writer — thriller
starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan
The Lost City — comedy
starring Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, and Brad Pitt
The Majestic — comedy/drama
starring Jim Carrey, Martin Landau
The Man Who Invented Christmas — comedy/drama
starring Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer
Misery — thriller
starring James Caan, Kathy Bates
Murder She Wrote — TV show
starring Angela Lansbury
Romancing The Stone — romantic comedy
starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito
The Secret Window — thriller
starring Johnny Depp, Maria Bello
Sibling Rivalry — romantic comedy
starring Kirstie Alley, Sam Elliott, Bill Pullman, and Jami Gertz
Stranger Than Fiction — comedy
starring Will Farrell, Emma Thompson, and Dustin Hoffman
This Beautiful Fantastic — comedy
starring Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott, Tom Wilkinson
Throw Mama From the Train — comedy
starring Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, and Anne Ramsey
Under the Tuscan Sun — romantic comedy
starring Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, and Vincent Riotta
Of course, these are only a few of the amazing movies out there about writers. I would love to hear your favorites that we can add to this list!
Your friend, fellow writer, and lover of all things magical,
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