Les poupées russes (2005), People, Places, Things (2015), Smashed (2012), Sleepwalk with Me (2012), 30 Years to Life (2001), The Weather Man (2005), How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008), While We're Young (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Career Struggles movies.
Storyline: Eddie (Sean Penn) is a confused and reckless man with a group of equally problematic friends. His roommate, caustic and sleazy Mickey (Kevin Spacey), is sleeping with Eddie's love, Darlene (Robin Wright Penn), because he can. His buddy Phil (Chazz Palminteri) is prone to violent rages that worry Eddie. All of them ruminate on their lives while consuming drugs and alcohol. Another friend, Artie (Garry Shandling), eventually arrives with a young date (Anna Paquin) who is ready for a fun night.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, drama, los angeles, hollywood, drug addiction, relationships, male friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jackie (Robert DeNiro) is a comic icon, attempting to reinvent himself despite his audience only wanting to know him as a television character he played earlier in his career. After accosting an audience member, Jackie is sentenced to community service where he meets Harmony Schiltz (Leslie Mann).—Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com)
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, stand-up comedy, new york, actor's life, satire, show business ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sylvia, approaching 35, is the "sassy weather girl" at a Seattle TV station. On a live broadcast, she castigates her boyfriend Dale (who's the show's anchorman) for sleeping with his co-anchor; then she quits. She'd been living with Dale, who explains himself by saying she's cold, so she moves in temporarily with her younger brother Walt. His neighbor Byron, a computer programmer, is always in Walt's flat working. While Sylvia looks for a job, Byron offers himself as a no-strings-attached rebound-sex partner, with the condition that she not tell Walt. How will she respond, and what about finding work, living with her brother, sorting things out with Dale, and being cold?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, independent film, female director, career woman, midlife crisis, self-discovery, love story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kristen Wiig stars as Imogene, a failed New York playwright awkwardly navigating the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News. After both her career and relationship hit the skids, she's forced to make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother (Annette Bening and Christopher Fitzgerald). Adding further insult to injury, there's a strange man sleeping in her old bedroom (Darren Criss) and an even stranger man sleeping in her mother's bed (Matt Dillon). Through it all, Imogene eventually realizes that as part of her rebuilding process she must finally come to love and accept both her family and her Jersey roots if she's ever going to be stable enough to get the hell away from them.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, female lead, coming of age, family relationships, underdog story, mother-daughter relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Slice of life look at a young woman trying to make it as an actress in Hollywood. Ellie Parker, from Australia, works hard: she's gifted with accents, hustles to auditions, changes clothes and makeup as she drives across L.A., goes to acting classes and therapy, maintains a friendship with another Aussie searching for the same roles, meets a cinematographer when he bangs into her car at a stop sign, and faces a failing relationship with her slacker thinks-he's-a-musician boyfriend. All this brings on an identity crisis - who am I, and should I keep trying to be an actress? Ellie's balancing act and her inquiry into self carry the story.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: independent film, comedy, drama, female lead, hollywood, actor's life, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, (watch for the facial expressions) and to whom you can turn to for help while facing life ('your parents, nyaa, I don't think so'). From there it flashes back to his memories of his parents, college, house across from a squirrel infested peanut factory, best friend, writing career and Joanne.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, independent film, new york, artist, relationships, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A week in the life of Ben, a powerful Hollywood producer, as he juggles negotiations with a studio head so that his newest picture can open at Cannes in two weeks, with a high-strung director who must make edits to the film, with an actor and his agent because the star has arrived on the set of a new picture with a full beard, and with his most recent ex-wife, Kelly, whom he discovers may have a lover. He also notices that his 17-year old daughter, from another marriage, has probably been crying. What's up? Can Ben keep it all together, get the green light from the studio to go to Cannes, move his new picture past the beard crisis, and maybe return to Kelly's good graces?
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, hollywood, film industry, satire, black comedy, producer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Andrea is a recently sober writer whose career has stalled since she published her debut novel several years ago. She strikes up an affair with Nick, a doctor-turned-writer who is hailed for his wartime memoir. At the same time, her sister Tara, a massage therapist dating an aging rock star, finds herself inexorably drawn to a newfound religious zeal and, particularly, to a politically engaged rabbi.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, independent film, female director, multiple storylines, emotional entanglements, contemporary life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A movie producer (Robert De Niro) tries to engineer a reconciliation with his ex-wife while dealing with a number of problems surrounding his latest projects.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, hollywood, satire, black comedy, film industry, producer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a dysfunctional group of unpublished writers with the motto "all for one" accept Hannah Rinaldi (Kaley Cuoco) into their fold, the last thing they expect is her overnight success - but that's exactly what they get. While her career takes off, her eccentric and envious colleagues (Chris Klein, Teri Polo, Dylan Walsh, Dennis Farina and Jonathan Bennett) struggle to find their own paths to publishing fame and fortune. Tensions rise, rivalries form, and hearts are broken. Rejection turns to desperation. Good thing they're only armed with pens...—Forever Sunny Productions
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, literature, humor, satire, dreams ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An adaptation of Tao Lin's beloved cult novel "Taipei". As one relationship collapses, another blooms for Erin, swept into the world of Paul Chen, a mysterious, charismatic author. When he proposes documenting every aspect of their courtship in an epic laptop-filmed "documentary", the couple enter into a performative bad romance, fueled by substances and sleepless nights.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, urban, contemporary, independent film, american film, 2010s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a competing eatery steals their customers, restaurant employees hatch a raunchy plan to drum up business.
Plot Keywords: comedy, restaurant, workplace, absurd, satire, indie film, sequel ...
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