Someone really could make the definitive film about Zora Neale Hurston. *Due to the parameters, this list skews a lot on the side of Woody Allen films and biopics of various British writers and nearly every American writing era, save, oh, the Harlem Renaissance. This film is pure cheese, one of the infrequent films to feature a black protagonist* as a writer, and its most memorable moment is a writing scene - a writing scene! - that’s become a meme, with Sean Connery cheering the young writer on as he types on a typewriter in his inimitable burr, “Punch the keys for God’s sake! Yes, yeeeessss! You’re the man now, dog!” Young Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) is a good basketball player and secretly a writing prodigy, and when he falls into the life of gone-to-seed writer and recluse William Forrester, a beautiful friendship is formed. Van Sant’s big budget follow-up to Good Will Hunting, this plays a bit like Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season (same young man/old man mentorship ideas) with all of the idiosyncrasy leeched out. Finding Forrester (2000), directed by Gus Van Sant The mood is right, and the scenery is beautiful, and the occasional Boston Brahmin accents are annoying, and if you are a girl who had a Plath phase, you may find this film to have a goofy camp appeal.Ĥ9. Daniel Craig, also, is far too short to believably have any of Ted Hughes’ physicality. As they didn’t get the rights to her poetry, Paltrow’s version of the doomed poetess is the most annoying girl in your class, the one who’s always reciting whole swaths of arcane poetry just to prove how smart she is. Sylvia (2003), directed by Christine Jeffs
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