In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tri...

In Buenos Aires, 17-year-old Bennie seeks out his estranged brother Tetro, a once-promising writer h...

Irresponsible party girl Maggie is kicked out of her father's and stepmother's home—where she lives ...

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess...

Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne t...

Laura, an unemployed writer in New York City, tries to juggle an unexciting boyfriend, an affair wit...

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War me...

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literat...

At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three or...

Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusin...

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown ...

A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist t...

A writer with a writer's block is tormented by his lack of inspiration. His girlfriend shows up and ...

Four university students head to Florida for spring break and enroll in a contest to see who can get...

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes fr...

When talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chan...

The story of writer Xiao Hong comes alive through memories of her great love affair, literary influe...

A cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher.

John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon mission...

When 19-year-old gay-rights activist Tommy and 24-year-old Alan first meet in 1973, they find themse...