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1) Henry Fool
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Simon Grim, a nerdy young sanitation worker who lives in Queens with his depressed mother and promiscuous sister, turns out to be a brilliant poet and an overnight literary sensation, after being encouraged to write down his ideas by Henry Fool, a boozy pseudo-intellectual who rents the Grim family basement.
2) Wonder Boys
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During a single weekend, college professor Grady Tripp scrambles to gather together a life that has suddenly reeled out of control. An unfinished novel, a stolen car, a murdered pet and a failing marriage are just a few of the crises piling up.
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an aspiring young writer falls head-over-heels in love with a free-spirited, hard-to-please young woman, he soon discover's he is going to have to work doubly hard to make their love work.
4) Ghost writer
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A music teacher takes in a boarder, a struggling writer who takes advantage of the teacher's hospitality. When the writer accidentally dies, the teacher steals his novel and passes it off as his own-- until the writer comes back to haunt him.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 195 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
My dear secretary: a best-selling author tries to find a personal secretary who can take care of all his grown-up business affairs without being scared off by his boy-like shenanigans ; The time of your life: a dashing and debonair playboy likes to hang out in Nick's Pacific Street Saloon Restaurant and Entertainment Palace, watching the world's strangest cast of characters drop in for a drink.
6) The words
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min. ; approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A writer at the peak of his literary success discovers the steep price he must pay for stealing another man's work.
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Un escritor ambicioso, que usa el sexo para avanzar profesionalmente, se compromete con la hija de un reconocido editor ya que está interesado en un premio que éste organiza. Ella enamorada y soñadora espera con ilusión el gran día de su boda sin sospechar que será el día más impactante de su vida en el que los personajes de la historia pondrán al descubierto su lado más oscuro.
An ambitious writer that uses sex to advance professionally,...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two strangers met by chance, spent a night together in Vienna, and parted before sunrise. Nine years later, Jesse has written a book about the encounter. During his accelerated European book tour, he meets up with Celine in Paris. Before Jesse's flight home, he joins Celine for a picturesque walk around the city and they have an intimate conversation, ending at Celine's apartment. Will they get the chance to fall in love all over again?
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following a bitter separation from his wife, famed mystery writer Mort Rainey is unexpectedly confronted at his remote lake house by a dangerous stranger named John Shooter. Claiming Mort has plagiarized his short story, the psychotic Shooter demands justice. When Shooter's demands turn to threats, and then to murder, Mort turns to a private detective he knows. But when nothing stops the horror from spiraling out of control, Mort soon discovers he...
10) Sinister
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, true crime writer Ellison Oswald made his reputation with a best-selling account of a notorious murder. Now, desperate to replicate the success of his first book, he moves his family into a home where the previous occupants were brutally executed and a child disappeared, hoping to find inspiration in the crime scene. In the home, Ellison discovers a cache of terrifying home movies, unwittingly opening the door into a nightmarish mystery....
11) The Kovak box
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sci-fi writer (Hutton) is invited to an island for a conference, only to discover that he's become lured into a trap.
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Description
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Douglas stars as a dashing, best-selling novelist who is even better at playing the ponies and chasing the women than he is at writing. But when his new secretary leaves in disgust, he marries her to get her back.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Becoming a successful writer remains an elusive dream for Byron. No longer able to support his family and pay the bills, he seeks employment at an upscale male escort service. As Byron slowly succumbs to the demands of the job-- and his own desires-- a destructive pattern of deception threatens the very thing that he sought to protect-- his family.
15) Her
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Description
1 videodisc (126 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in Los Angeles in the slight future, Theodore, a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive and unique entity in its own right. Upon initiating it, he is delighted to meet "Samantha", a bright, female voice who is insightful, sensitive and surprisingly...
17) Love nest
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jim Scott is an aspiring writer who, together with wife Connie, move into the basement of the apartment building that they have bought. Jim's hope to make a profit are thwarted by the everyday travails of maintaining the building and taking care of the needs of their tenants. Charming con artist Charley targets Eadie as his latest victim and when he is finally caught, he generously offers to tell his story to Jim, thereby launching Jim's career in...
18) The mentor
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Description
54 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Rubin is a cantankerous old writer, whiskey aficionado and pedant, still basking in the reflected glory of long-ago success. Martin Wegner is a rising young literary star, heralded as 'the voice of his generation'. When Martin is given the opportunity to develop his new play under the mentorship of his idol, the writers meet in a dilapidated art-nouveau villa somewhere in the German countryside. Two massive egos are set on a collision course...
19) Twixt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hall Baltimore, who is a writer, is on a book tour and uncovers a disturbing murder that could be the source material for his next novel. But as Hall investigates the killing, he finds himself confronted by chilling nightmares, including the ghost of a young girl. As he uncovers more horrifying revelations, Hall will discover that the story has more to do with his own life than he could ever have imagined.
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