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...

Eugenio is the author of a once-popular Western novel is experiencing various real-life difficulties. His most famous character, Jesus Kid, a gun-slinging cowboy, is getting bad sales, and his publisher wants him to ghost-write a political biography ... or else. Then appears what could be his salvation. He's hired to write a screenplay, only he's told he must isolate himself for three months in a luxury hotel, to do so. What best-selling film could...

Garp is a man whose life unfolds from cradle to grave in counterpoint to the dizzy, violent, cruel and casually destructive rhythms of our anxious age. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, his mother Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.

Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city's lost treasure from her latest story. Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off to rescue her.

A young woman escapes from her group home hoping to get her Star Trek script produced in Hollywood. With her sister and psychiatrist at her heels, she must conquer a new world full of challenges.

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

Fledgling writer Samuel Liston is enlisted to writer the biography of Floyd Deveraux, an enigmatic middle-aged father of two. But the circumstances that lead up to this arrangement in the first place are quite astonishing and efforts to write the biography are quickly stymied by ensuing chaos.

The story follows writer Rick on an odyssey through the playgrounds of Los Angeles and Las Vegas as he undertakes a search for love and self. Even as he moves through a desire-laden landscape of mansions, resorts, beaches and clubs, Rick grapples with complicated relationships with his brother and father. His quest to break the spell of his disenchantment takes him on a series of adventures with six alluring women.

While working for literary agent Phyllis Westberg, aspiring writer Joanna Rakoff receives personal advice from reclusive author J.D. Salinger.

The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who "temporarily" parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for fifteen years.