Sentences with phrase «writer friends attempt»

While his group of writer friends attempt to help him, he finds himself falling for «her» played by Michelle Monaghan.

Not exact matches

While recuperating after a suicide attempt, Lane (Mia Farrow), along with her brassy, socialite mother (Elaine Stritch), agreeable stepfather (Jack Warden), best friend (Dianne Wiest), a discouraged writer (Sam Waterston) and aging lovelorn neighbor (Denholm Elliot) all converge on the suffocating summer cottage where over the course of a season, they all have a chance to expose their cracks and chasms.

But that doesn't stop director Dylan («How High») and writer Adam Herz (the creator of these «Pie» movies) from attempting to garner actual audience sympathy for him when he realizes he may have ruined his friends» wedding, thereby blowing his chance to bed Michelle's little sister Candice (January Jones).

Alternating between pithy and smarmy, Lovelife is first - time writer - director Jon Harmon Feldman's attempt to marry the ensemble character appeal of TV's «Friends» with an introspective look at relationships akin to Woody Allen.

Netflix's «Friends From College» (premiering Friday), a tepid attempt to make the anxieties of a clique of Harvard alums who are turning 40 seem relatable and funny to the rest of us peons, is co-created by film writer and director Nicholas Stoller («Neighbors,» «Forgetting Sarah Marshall») and Francesca Delbanco.

An aspiring screenwriter lets his best friend talk him into using a sleazy claims investigator to find a girl the writer had a crush on in high school, only to have the investigator fall in love with the girl and attempt to sabotage the writer's attempts at a romantic reunion.

I have two writer friends looking at my latest attempt.