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: Xavier is now thirty. No longer a student, he is not yet a well-balanced, fulfilled adult either. His career is unsatisfying: Far from being the renowned novelist he aimed to be he must be content with little jobs such as reporter or ghost writer. His greatest "achievement" in "literature" is his collaboration to the script of a corny TV soap! His sentimental life is not much better, rhythmed by one night stands and unfinished romances. It looks as if when he seduces a woman beautiful outside and inside such as Kassia or Wendy he can't keep them. Will he ever bring his life into focus?
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, french film, sequel, coming of age, urban life, relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: PEOPLE PLACES THINGS tells the story of Will Henry (Jemaine Clement), a newly single graphic novelist father balancing single-parenting his young twin daughters, writers block, a classroom full students, all the while exploring and navigating the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who left him.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, independent film, new york, single father, midlife crisis, dating ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kate and Charlie Hannah have a relationship well lubricated with alcohol, but Kate finally finds her chemical appetites have gotten completely out of control. With the help of an ex-addict friend at work, Kate finds a support group that helps her begin to conquer her addictions. However, that recovery proves just part of a larger personal challenge to rebuild her life even as her marriage with her drunken husband deteriorates.
Plot Keywords: alcoholism, recovery, self-destruction, deception, teacher, addiction, secrets ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, independent film, autobiographical, marriage, relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An ensemble comedy that follows the lives of six friends in New York City during the year in which they each reach their 30th birthday. We meet an investment banker from Wall Street, a stand-up comedian, a real estate agent, a marketing executive who perceives any career advancement as a sign of getting old, and a man whose thanks for being in a four-year relationship is a girlfriend who insists on an even greater commitment.
Plot Keywords: youth, friendship, romance, coming of age, urban life, life transition, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago, where his career is going well, while his personal life, his relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children, is spiralling downward. Despite being loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who doesn't seem to have it all together, and in this movie, he begins to feel it. An attractive job offer presents Dave with a major question: to pursue his career in New York City, or to remain at home with his family.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, black comedy, midlife crisis, family, father-son relationship, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamor. His alternative magazine, "Post Modern Review", pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based "Sharps" magazine it's something of a shock! It seems "Sharps" editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes. Initially helping him out at Sharps is colleague Alison Olsen, who has her own secret. Wither their friendship?
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, workplace, media, celebrity culture, british film, adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Josh Srebnick is 44. He is married to Cornelia, 43, the daughter of Leslie Breitbart, a respected documentary filmmaker. The couple lives comfortably in New York Village and gives the image of happiness. But things are not so rosy as they look: on a personal level, their relationships have been cooling down while they suffer from not having children. On a professional plane, things have deteriorated as well. Josh, who is also a documentary filmmaker like his father-in-law, has lost inspiration: he has been grappling with his last movie for eight years now without being able to complete it. To be true, Josh goes nowhere and his marriage is on the rocks. Things start changing when Josh and Cornelia meet another married pair: Jamie and Darby, a generation younger, express their admiration for Josh (Jamie wishing to become a documentary filmmaker himself). Plus, they are much cooler, smarter and more uninhibited than the two forty-odds. Could they help Josh and Cornelia to revive their ...
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, marriage, generational conflict, new york, midlife crisis, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nick Chapman graduates from film school, and his short film wins a special prize. This gives him a high enough profile that he can get Hollywood to back the film he has long dreamed of making. Studio exec Allen Habel is interested. But Nick soon is seduced by Hollywood and makes one concession after another until his original movie is lost altogether. Worse, Nick is lost, too, turning on girlfriend Susan and old buddy Emmet. Will he come to his sense before everything is lost?—Reid Gagle
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, black comedy, art, film industry, satire, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mac Brewster (Benny) is head of an advertising firm that is in debt. The million-dollar Townsend Silver contract could save the firm, but the wealthy playboy Alan Townsend (Arlen) wants an amateur from high society rather than a professional model to become "the Townsend Girl." Upset that she was passed over sight-unseen as a professional, Brewster's top model (Lupino) goes to Miami with plans to bump into Townsend and pass as a society debutante.—LJ Copley
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, romance, black and white, classic hollywood, show business, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Andy and Elizabeth buy a farm in Vermont, they can't imagine the trouble that awaits them. Andy has quit his job as a sports journalist and is planning to use the peace and quiet of the country to write the Great American Novel. From the moment the movers' truck gets lost with their furniture, though, there's little peace and less quiet. From a manical mailman to a dead body buried in the garden, Andy is distracted by the town and its wacky inhabitants. His effort at a novel is mediocre, at best, and he's threatened by Elizabeth's foray into writing when she attempts a children's book. Can the Farmers survive the townsfolk and each other?
Plot Keywords: comedy, rural life, marriage, humor, 1980s, american film, neighborhood dynamics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Puerto Rican family living in the area of Humboldt Park in west Chicago face what may be their last Christmas together.
Plot Keywords: family, comedy, christmas, reunion, chicago, cultural clash, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A famous 'Jackie Collins'-type novelist falls for a quirky twenty-year-old kid.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, independent film, romantic comedy, urban life, writer, journalist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Frustrated by her lack of recognition, a middle-aged artist leaves the city for upstate New York to regain her creative spark.
Plot Keywords: independent film, art, female director, new york, midlife crisis, self-discovery, comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of the world has forgotten the golden days of Buddy Young, and that there just may not be room in the business for an old comic like himself.—Michael Silva <silvamd@cleo.bc.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, american film, 1990s, directorial debut, stand-up comedy, family relationships ...
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