On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behaviour.

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. T...

Sy Parrish has lovingly developed photographs for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But ...

Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to ...

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and ...

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish fa...

Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as heads of the Baker family who, while on vacation, find themse...

While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with co...

After the lord of darkness decides he will not cede his throne to any of his three sons, the two mos...

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister ...

The tale of a workaholic dad-turned-dog who finds that being man's best friend shows him the most im...

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited ...

An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addicti...

Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive da...

After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is g...

This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, ...

Elliot Hopper, a widower with three children, is working on a business deal to get his family out of...

A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive...

Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German ...

After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange,...

A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and f...