Sentences with phrase «alcoholic writer»

Moving from his parents» Upper West Side apartment to the Lower East Side, he befriends his neighbor W.F. (Jeff Bridges), a shambling alcoholic writer who dispenses worldly wisdom alongside healthy shots of whiskey.

The film sets it's stall up well, as we are introduced to Martin, a struggling, Irish, alcoholic writer with absolutely no creative spark whatsoever.

She is excellent, funny and uncannily believable as a struggling alcoholic writer.

That's where struggling, alcoholic writer Marty (Farrell) stands with his overzealous friend Billy Bickle (Rockwell), who spends his time split between grilling Marty about his progress on his screenplay «Seven Psychopaths» and stealing dogs from people in parks and then returning them via his accomplice Hans (Walken) for a modest reward.

The plot is a standard recollection scenario centred on Nick Carraway (a wan and unfocussed Tobey Maguire), now a ravaged alcoholic writer seeking sanitarium treatment under Dr Perkins (Jack Thompson, one of many great Aussie actors who turn up for three lines and a rare Hollywood - size paycheque).

Louis Malle offers a stark and unsparing look at the depths of depression through Alain (Maurice Ronet), a recovering alcoholic writer who decides to put an end to his unbearable inner turmoil and kill himself — but not before seeking out his old friends and lovers in Paris.

Noah Van Sciver talks to CBR about returning to Fante Bukowski, a 24 year old who lives the «struggling alcoholic writer» cliché.

So it goes with Colossal, which stars Anne Hathaway as Gloria, an alcoholic writer who somehow finds herself telepathically linked to a scaly monster on the other side of the world, laying waste to Seoul and killing hundreds of innocents during one blacked - out evening.

Beautiful, captivating, and original, The Trip to Echo Spring strips away the myth of the alcoholic writer to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.