Writer's Block Movies, Movies about Writer's Block

Here we've displayed a list of the best Writer's Block films : The Shining(1980), Barton Fink(1991), Adaptation(2002), Monster in a Box(1991), Stuck in Love(2012), Wonder Boys(2000), The Adventures of Mark Twain(1944), The Man Who Invented Christmas(2017), Turtle Diary(1985), Reuben, Reuben(1983), Sinister(2012), Under the Tuscan Sun(2003) ... ...

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The Shining

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

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Barton Fink

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

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Adaptation

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.

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Monster in a Box

This is the story of Spalding Gray and his attempt to write a novel. It is a first person account about writing and living, and dealing with success while trying to be successful.

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Stuck in Love

An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.

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Wonder Boys

An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.

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The Adventures of Mark Twain

The dramatized life of immortal humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, from his days as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River until his death in 1910 shortly after Halley's Comet returned.

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The Man Who Invented Christmas

The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of "A Christmas Carol," a timeless tale that would redefine Christmas.

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Turtle Diary

Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they ... See full summary »

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Reuben, Reuben

A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.

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Sinister

Washed-up true crime writer Ellison Oswalt finds a box of super 8 home movies in his new home that suggest the murder that he is currently researching is the work of a serial killer whose work dates back to the 1960s.

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Under the Tuscan Sun

A writer impulsively buys a villa in Tuscany in order to change her life.

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Crime Wave

A young director intent on making "the greatest color crime movie ever" can't seem to finish his script--he has a beginning and an end, but he can't quite figure out the middle. The ... See full summary »

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Music on Hold

Ezequiel is a film music composer that can't find the inspiration he needs to compose a new score and Paula is a pregnant woman recently abandoned by her boyfriend whose mother has just ... See full summary »

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Best Seller

A hitman approachs a writer to help him create the next best seller on his career, but the violent world he was a part of has other plans.

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Hav Plenty

Lee Plenty is a flailing, wannabe writer, homeless and apartment-sitting for his friend, the wealthy Havilland Savage, while she is off visiting family. So Lee jumps at the chance to see Havilland, whom he has secretly loved for years.

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Paris When It Sizzles

The sprightly young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter helps him over his writer's block by acting out his fantasies of possible plots.

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Funny Farm

A couple swap city life for the country, but their picturesque new hometown turns out to be just a little bit different to what they were expecting.

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Skin Deep

A womanizing alcoholic writer, whose life seems to be falling apart at the seams, repeatedly finds himself in trouble of one sort or another with the law, ex-girlfriends, and jealous boyfriends.

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Seven Keys to Baldpate

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. Peace and quiet are last things he gets, though, as there are some very strange things going on at the establishment.

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Suddenly Naked

A famous 'Jackie Collins'-type novelist falls for a quirky twenty-year-old kid.

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Baghead

4 "actors" go to a cabin in the woods for the weekend to write a movie script. They talk about a relationship movie or a paper bag over the head movie. It starts with an anonymous baghead and slowly escalates.

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The Best Man

A guy tries to help his best friend win the attention of the girl of his dreams.

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Her Alibi

Phil has writer's block after 30 detective novels. In court for inspiration, he sees a cute Romanian murder suspect. He provides her alibi. She stays with him. Will he live to write another novel?

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A Fine Madness

Samson Shillitoe, mad genius of a poet irresistible to women, but plagued by writer's block, agrees to see a psychiatrist, and his beautiful wife.

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Happy Ending

A confused writer goes on the search of inspiration for his next story and falls in love with a best seller author who doesn't believe in love.

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Blithe Spirit

A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writer's block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife, which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.

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Dog Gone Love

A romantic comedy about a man, a woman, and their dogs. Steven Merritt, a research obsessed writer is mistaken for being gay by Rebecca, a young veterinarian assistant. He decides to play ... See full summary »

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The Adderall Diaries

Elliot, a troubled former successful writer decides to write about a missing wife and the following murder trial of her husband.

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Shabd

When a novelist seeks inspiration by urging his wife to have an affair, the line between his story and reality is blurred.

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