The Rewrite (2014)

Release date: 2015-02-13
Country: USA
Language: English|French
Director: Marc Lawrence
Production Co: Castle Rock Entertainment, Resnick Interactive Development
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rating: 6.2/10
Length: 1h 47min

Storyline

Keith Michaels, an academy award winner for his screenplay for the movie "Paradise Misplaced", now faces the challenge of being rejected in Hollywood. To get a breakthrough he is forced to take the job he most hates, teaching. The assignment is at a college is far from his comforts and could possibly take him to a new life.

Plot Keywords

father figure, screenplay, hollywood, writer, single parent, aspiring writer, university, college, screenwriter, professor, optimist, reference to jane austen, waitress, single mother, usa, united states, scene during end credits, 2010s, two word title, reference to star wars

Short Review

A full two decades after "Four Weddings and a Funeral," Hugh Grant still does that stammering, understated, witty and dashing thing as well as anyone in the business.