Other films concerning literature

84 Charing Cross Road is about books and two people writing to each other, feels much like some parts of finding forrester, literary friendships etc.

Check out Wonderboys with Michael Douglas, Tobey McGuire and Katie Holmes. Great film and definitely my favourite "literature" movie.

Really a totally different type of movie, but Ask the Dusk is about a guy who falls in love with a waitress while trying to write a book.

The Jane Austen Book Club, although that's obviously only about Jane Austen's work.

There's Henry and June, about Henry Miller and Anais Nin, in Paris, in the 1930's

A little different angel,but The Ninth Gate is very literary movie.

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"Field of Dreams" also concerns a legendary author who wrote one momentous book and then disappeared into seclusion for decades, before being lured out by a fresh-faced enthusiastic young guy.




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4) You ever seen Superman $#$# his pants? Case closed.

There's always Throw Momma From the Train, which involves a creative writing class taught by a writer who struggles to write because his ex-wife stole his manuscript and suddenly had a bestseller with it. In a funny way, the movie hits the nail on the head where writer's block is concerned. But the earlier posters who mentioned Wonder Boys are the money here. That's a fabulous movie about writers and writing. There's also The Basketball Diaries, which is a fairly artless adaptation of the wonderful Jim Carroll book about running wild in the streets of NYC and writing it all down in his journals. Of course, the real Jim Carroll (may he rest in peace) and the character Jim in the movie (as played by Leo DiCaprio) both like to get high as much as they like to write, or maybe just to have something to write about -- it's clearly a symbiotic relationship. One feeds off the other. Which leads us nicely to Naked Lunch, which is an even looser adaptation of William Burrough's classic hallucinatory novel than even The Basketball Diaries was. But the film does still focus on a drug-induced writing process, mixed with some wildly paranoid fantasies. I think I'd recommend reading the book in both cases before seeing the films.

There's also The Front, Misery, My Left Foot, Capote, Barfly, Adaptation, Swimming Pool, The Shining and Barton Fink, but you probably already thought of those.