Sentences with phrase «failed novelist»

Achieving greatness as a drummer is Andrew's sole focus in life; his dorm walls are covered in photos of his hero, jazz percussionist Buddy Rich, and his social life consists of little more than the occasional movie date with his nebbishy single father (Paul Reiser), a high school English teacher and failed novelist whom Andrew both loves and dreads becoming.

When failed novelist Sam Kornberg's wife walks out on him, he decides to take a job as an assistant to morbidly obese private detective Solar Lonsky.

He regarded Muggeridge as a «failed novelist,» whose foray into intelligence work during the war permitted him to escape the unhappiness of family life for a life «where things were deceptive and dishonest by definition.»

Echoing the loose - strand structure of Radio Days, this much more vulgar glimpse into the dark soul of fame and fortune follows the separate paths embarked upon by a failed novelist (Kenneth Branagh) and his mousy ex-wife (Judy Davis) in the wake of their divorce.

Kevin Kline plays Mathias Gold, a failed novelist from America coming to France to claim and sell a gorgeous Paris apartment that he's inherited from his dead father.

Kemp, a failed novelist, lands at the failing San Juan Star, «a lousy little Caribbean rag» that specializes in stories on tourist haunts, i.e. bowling alleys and casinos.

Richard, a bachelor, is a failed novelist and hardened lothario.

In writer - director Noah Baumbach's brilliant tale of divorce, Brooklyn intellectual style, a particularly ugly separation between a failed novelist (Daniels) and his successful writer wife (Linney) produces no end of emotional shrapnel.

Meanwhile, their daughter (Naomi Watts) sidles up to an art dealer (Antonio Banderas) out of exasperation with her husband (Josh Brolin), a failed novelist who's also doing a little flirting.

Depp is Paul Kemp, a failing novelist in need of a quick buck.

His narrator, also named Josh Cohen, is a failed novelist turned ghostwriter, and from page one his voice is unforgettable:

It is our failing novelist, though, who gives us the perfect metaphor for understanding the thematic reach of Mitchell's masterpiece.

That doesn't have to mean you're a procrastinator or a failed novelist.