«The movement in your pictures is you moving,»
wrote his friend Billy Collins, the former U.S. Poet Laureate.
Not exact matches
The problem is that we don't often actually see those
friends face to face, as the Boston Globe's
Billy Baker discovered when his editor asked him to
write about the health effects of loneliness recently.
At the same time Marty discovers his best
friend has publicly solicited for psychopaths to contact him to help inspire his story, the dognapping scam hits a snag when
Billy steals the dog of local psychopath Charlie (Harrelson) who quickly exacts his revenge and sends the
writing and dognapping trio into the desert where they figure out how to deal with Charlie's rampage and, if they have time, a decent ending for Marty's story.
Luckily, his loudmouthed
friend Billy (Sam Rockwell) has a few ideas and would like nothing more but to be included in Marty's
writing and idea - generation process.
At this point, Sandler, who
wrote the script with the original film's Fred Wolf and longtime co-scribe Tim Herlihy (a contributor to Sandler's every film from
Billy Madison to Mr. Deeds), seems content to make movies for his and his
friends» benefit.
His constant drinking is driving his girlfriend Kaya (Abbie Cornish) away, while his best
friend Billy (Sam Rockwell) tries to assist with story ideas that are the total opposite of Marty's goal to
write something with heart.