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1) Slipstream
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Hired to rewrite a film, an aging screenwriter finds the lines between reality and imagination blurring as characters from his script (and others) hop off the page and into his life.
2) The rewrite
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A successful screenwriter leaves Hollywood to take a job as a professor in a small town where he meets and falls in love with a single mother.
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Marty is a struggling screenwriter who wants nothing more than to finish his script. Instead, he becomes entangled with the Los Angeles gangster underworld when his odd, but well-meaning friends kidnap a volatile gangster's shih tzu. The ordeal gives Marty all the inspiration he needs; now, he must live long enough to finish his story.
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Marty is a struggling screenwriter who wants nothing more than to finish his script. Instead, he becomes entangled with the Los Angeles gangster underworld when his odd, but well-meaning friends kidnap a volatile gangster's shih tzu. The ordeal gives Marty all the inspiration he needs; now, he must live long enough to finish his story.
8) The Majestic
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An amnesiac settles in a small town where he is mistaken for a long lost local hero.
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Nines consists of three short films, each featuring the same actors in different and sometimes overlapping roles. Togehter, three stories form a single narrative that explores the relationships between author and character, actor and role, creator and creation.
Slipstream: A screenwriter, revising the movie he is working on, finds that reality and fiction are blurring together when some of the characters in his film are showing up in real life.
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A princess on an official visit to Rome slips away without notice and falls in love with a newspaperman; a screenwriter has a deadline and no script until his secretary comes to the rescue by acting out a series of preposterous plotlines; after a stint in Paris, a chauffeur's daughter transforms from a shy, awkward girl into a graceful woman, capturing the attention of a wealthy family's sons; Holly Golightly, a charming, eccentric New York City playgirl,...
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A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele who has a history of violent behavior becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor who is attracted to him lies to the police providing them...
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: Holly Golightly, a charming, eccentric New York City playgirl, is determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire until she meets her new next-door neighbor, a gigolo and struggling writer ; Funny face: a fashion photographer pulls a shy Greenwich Village bookstore clerk from obscurity to become a model in Paris -- My fair lady: A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady -- Paris when it sizzles:...