Best Movies About Writers
Posted on October 21, 2014 at 3:37 pm
Flavorwire has put together a great list of the 50 best movies about writers. It’s always tricky to make a writer interesting on film. On one hand, you have the advantage of a character who is likely to be witty and eloquent. Movies are written by writers, so they have some insight and appreciation for what goes into putting words on paper (or screens). And some real-life writers have had interesting, even exciting lives. On the other hand, it is hard to make arresting visuals out of someone typing on a keyboard or scratching with a quill pen.
For depicting the passion and challenges of writing, I recommend Little Women
Screenwriter William Goldman and supporting actor Jason Robards won Oscars, as did the production design and sound.
Frank Langella and Michael Sheen star in Ron Howard’s film about the interviews that Richard Nixon thought would help to restore his reputation.
The home movies and recollections of the White House staff provide the basis for this 2013 documentary.
history of Watergate.
Meryl Streep plays legendary chef Julia Child and Amy Adams plays the real-life amateur chef who decided to make every recipe in Child’s 
, which revolutionized American cooking (and television).
Stanley Tucci and Tony Shaloub play brothers whose Italian restaurant is a little too authentic for its customers and its era.
A French servant in a small Danish village has a secret. She was once a top chef. When she wins the lottery she asks for permission to cook a meal for her employers, two spinster sisters who have spent their lives in severe simplicity and have never experienced anything like the luxury and sumptuousness of the meal she prepares.
, Catherine Zeta Jones plays a brilliant but temperamental chef whose life is turned upside down when she becomes the guardian for her young niece.
is a chef with a magical touch in the kitchen in this delicious romance.