Sentences with phrase «alcoholic writer who»

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.

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.

She's also instrumental in making the film work, turning in her equivalent of Charlize Theron's performance in Young Adult as Gloria, an alcoholic writer who returns to her Northeastern U.S. hometown after her fussy, career - oriented boyfriend Tim (Dan Stevens) kicks her out.

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.

Not exact matches

There are many other writers who have taken a crack at definitions — often with an apparent attempt to attack religion, Christianity, Alcoholics Anonymous, the «recovery industry,» addiction medicine, treatment programs, certain scholars, certain historians, and many other kinds of targets.

The same year that he delivered his Oscar turn as reporter Mike Connor in The Philadelphia Story and Mr. Kralik in Ernst Lubitsch's classic The Shop Around the Corner, he also played a seemingly simple country writer who becomes an egotistical alcoholic in the very strange No Time For Comedy — an unintentionally apt title — opposite Rosalind Russell.

Marty (Colin Farrell) is an alcoholic, would - be screenwriter who is suffering with a case of writer's block while developing his latest project, a «pacifist» story about psychopaths.

In writer - director Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths — his follow up to the strong but sometimes too clever In Bruges — Colin Farrell plays «Martin,» an alcoholic screenwriter who has an idea for a script called Seven Psychopaths, but who can't decide who the psychopaths should be, ow what should happen.

But scribes Andrew Knight (who mostly works in television but also scripted Russell Crowe's directorial effort The Water Diviner in 2014) and Robert Schenkkan (who has also worked as a television writer since adapting Graham Greene's The Quiet American for Phillip Noyce) give leverage to Doss» interactions with his combative superiors (a rather kitschy but likeable Vince Vaughn fares better than a somnolent Sam Worthington), underlining his developmental difficulties with authority figures thanks to his alcoholic dad.

Writer - director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) makes a stilted anti-drone argument in fiction form, casting Ethan Hawke as a conflicted, alcoholic Air Force major who wipes out targets via joystick from a bunker in Nevada.

This Stanley Kubrick film (based on the Steven King novel) stars Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, a writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a job as the winter caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel.

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).

American writers Eugene O'Neill, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner were alcoholics who won Nobel Prizes in literature.

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